We are converting from AIX to Solaris 2.8 with UniData 6.0.9. On AIX I could put users into the printq group and they could run procs/paragraphs that execute PTRENABLE and PTRDISABLE commands when mounting and printing on forms and then returning to normal stock.
I have found that I cannot do that on Solaris. Instead I get an error message stating that I must be logged in as root or lp to issue these commands even when the user is in the root and/or lpr groups. I can use an !su root -c "disable form1" command that will work, but asks for the root password. Not a good choice. I can use sudo that asks for the user's password. While I'd like to have no password for these two commands this is O.K. if I can get feedback within UniData that the command was successful, i.e. that the user remembered to turn off the caps lock key and entered their password correctly and that the printer was successfully enabled/disabled. Another choice is to have somebody else build a Unix script that the users can run that will 'always' work or allow my paragraph/proc/program to test the error status. Our systems guy did talk to one person at Sun who's response was on the order of "Why would you want to do that? Users cannot enable and disable print queues." I assume that there is probably some way to allow users to issue enable and disable commands but getting there is apparently non-trivial. What do other people do? Thanks, Karjala ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
