Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> I seem to have the permissions messed up for lpd, because user's can't
> remove their own jobs.  /var/spool/lpd and subdirs are set to 
> "drwxrwxr-x root.lp".  I tried drwxrwxrwx, drwxrwsr-x and drwxrwsrwx but
> none of these helped.
> 

There are security problems with lpr and it doesn't seem to detect
local users properly. The fix is to upgrade to lprng (which is in the
unstable tree, but I have had no problems---in fact it's a lot nicer
than plain vanilla lpr & co.).

Graeme

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