so add your father's account to group lp? allan
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Andre Robatino wrote: > m. allan noah wrote: >> >> this is just a permissions problem? can you get the udev subsystem to set >> the mode of the parport file to something more permissive? >> >>> > It's definitely a permissions problem. The permissions on /dev/parport0 > are: > > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Jul 11 13:19 /dev/parport0 > > Prior to udev we simply changed the permissions to 666 and that worked. On > my Fedora box, I tried editing /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules by changing > the permissions in the line > > KERNEL=="parport*", GROUP="lp", MODE="0660" > > to 666. This didn't work - after rebooting, the permissions are still 660. > I read something somewhere about this having something to do with pam > security which I don't know anything about. It seems that figuring out how > to change the permissions to 666 will be at least as difficult as finding out > how to do this the "right" way. > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera