On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 13:58 -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > OK, could be. At present CUPSYS is screwed up again <YECH>. When I > actually go into the add printer menu and try to select a printer, it > hangs completely. Fortunately my printer was added a while ago at one > of those brief times when CUPSYS actually worked! > >
Actually, mine is now working! The procedure I used as outlined by somebody else on this list was to create a script that issued the following commands: sudo adduser cupsys shadow sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart firefox localhost:631 sudo deluser cupsys shadow sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart For the above to work, your user id has to be in the lpadmin group. It's not a great solution, because 1) if your currently printing, stopping and restarting cups doesn't play nice with your print job and 2) loading firefox to add/remove a printer is not the most intuitive interface for the average user (especially if they are coming from Windows). However it does work and the adding/removing cupsys from shadow takes care of the reading the shadow file. The only security risk could be if the power went down between the time cupsys was added to shadow and prior to its removal, then in theory there could be a back door, but the risk would seem to be minimal. Joe -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
