[opensuse] HP Device Manager on openSuse 11.4
On 2 different 11.4 installs, I selected HP Device Manager for printing. I set up the same network printer. This first box would not print, but the second box would. In any case, when I try to manage a que, or change a printer setting, HP Dev Mgr puts up an error message saying to add user to "lp' group. I did that, and then I said to add user to "sys" group. Now I can manage the printer. But, what are these groups, and is there any security concern having my normal users added to these groups? Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Mar 29 23:52 Jim Flanagan wrote (excerpt):
... when I try to manage a que, or change a printer setting, HP Dev Mgr puts up an error message saying to add user to "lp' group. I did that, and then I said to add user to "sys" group. Now I can manage the printer. But, what are these groups, and is there any security concern having my normal users added to these groups?
It depends on whether or not you trust the persons which work under your normal user accounts on your system. By default only the user "root" is allowed to do printer admin tasks because a user who is allowed to do printer admin tasks can change the print queues as he likes. For example he could let (possibly confidential) print jobs print as usual (so that the betrayal is not easily noticed) but additionaly send a copy of what is printed to any external destination. See "Allow printer admin tasks for a normal user" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681679#c1 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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