[printing-discuss] Re: [Inkjet-list] Device capabilities?
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Apr 4 01:14:59 PST 2002
luke.kendall at cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>> If you use the CUPS API library, I think you will be able to handle
>> the PPD files without root permissions.
>>
>
> Sorry, I still don't understand. Unless the files in /etc/cups/ppd are
> publically writable?
>
> If they're not, and I'm not the owner, or in the group, then a library
> function can't give me write permission, I thought. I thought that
> required a setuid or setgid process to be involved.
When a non-root user changes options they do not get written into the
PPD file, the user gets a personal ~/.lpoptions and the settings there
override the settings in the PPD file.
Till
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