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Managing the print service

Allowing users to enable and disable a printer

You might want to make the enable and disable commands available for use by other users. This availability is useful, for instance, if you have a small organization where anyone who spots a problem with the printer should be able to disable it and fix the problem. This is not a good idea if you want to keep others from interfering with the proper operation of the Print Service.

To allow others access to the enable and disable commands, change the access mode of /usr/bin/enable so that other can execute the commands:

chmod o+x /usr/bin/enable

Clearing the bit removes this privilege:

chmod o-x /usr/bin/enable

To allow all users to run enable and disable, enter the following:

chmod 111 /usr/bin/enable

To prevent others from running enable and disable, enter the following:

chmod 110 /usr/bin/enable


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