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From: babucher@mtu.edu (Brian A. Bucher)
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Subject: restricted use of lpr
Date: 28 Jun 1995 18:52:11 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
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System: BSD/OS 1.1

I had a similar question about 2 weeks back...
The problem is that I want only a few specific users (the ones
in the 'wheel' group) to have access to the lp* commands...
before when I wanted this set of users to have access to the
gcc compiler I just changed the group to 'wheel'.
But don't the lpr, lprm, etc commands have to have daemon as the
group and be SUID?
How can I allow only these users to access the commands besides
adding them to the daemon group in /etc/group? (which is a
Bad Thing(tm) I guess)

Thanks,
Boo