On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:55:14 -0600 Rick Shelton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:38 PM, luxInteg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings > > > > I compiled cups on a new system and and forgot to create the user lp > > beforehand. After spotting the error I created the user lp. Does the > > sequence of user creation-compilation matter or is a recompilation of cups > > needed? > > > > I doubt there will be any problems that merit rebuilding the package. > The user should be known to the system because CUPS assumes that > user id when creating files during start up (I think). So in the worst > case I think you would just have to double check ownership of some files. > > Ah but you are in luck. > The user lp is created with a base LFS system. > The BLFS instruction to create the user is redundant, > probably as a let's-make-darn-sure-the-user-exists measure. > So no need to worry. > Are you sure LFS creates the user lp? I can see the creates group lp but I can't see where it creates the user. For what it's worth I don't create an lp user and cups runs fine for me. It seems that everything installed by cups is owned by root on my system. This is from cups' configure: checking for launch.h... no checking whether to use network default printers... yes checking for default print user... nobody checking for default print group... lp checking for default system groups... "sys root" checking for pdftops... /usr/bin/pdftops checking for java... no Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
