Hello Chris,

On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 20:58 +1000, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:55:05 PM Chris Samuel wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:54:44 PM Mark Trickett wrote:
> > > Query on CUPS and printer drivers/filters, do you have a system user in
> > > your passwd file of lp?
> > 
> > On my Ubuntu system they are all owned by root:

That is what I see on my Debian 7.8

> Sigh, I answered your second question (which I trimmed) and missed the first 
> one that I left there.   I blame this cold (to paraphrase Monty Python).
> 
> To answer the question I missed..
> 
> root@quad:~# getent passwd lp
> lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
> 
> root@quad:~# getent group lp
> lp:x:7:
> 
> root@quad:~# getent group lpadmin
> lpadmin:x:117:chris

This matches, mostly. I added myself to both lp and lpadmin as I had not
read of the instruction to add to the lpadmin group. Still poking around
looking for various files here and there, but I think some of the Canon
bits may refer to files in places they were in prior incarnations. I am
trying to chase round, but going in circles.

> All the best,
> Chris

Regards,

Mark Trickett

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