Or you can add the user "apache" to the group "lp".

Francisco


Koen van Leeuwen wrote:

>>If you are using /dev/lp*, then you can change the permissions to allow
>>anyone to use it:
>>
>>crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 Apr 11  2002 /dev/lp0
>>(default on my laptop, redhat 7.2)
>>
>>a "chmod o+rw /dev/lp0" (as root) gives:
>>crw-rw-rw-    1 root     lp         6,   0 Apr 11  2002 /dev/lp0
>>
>>and now anyone can read/write the lp0 port.  This may be a security
>>issue; if not, I think this will solve your problem.
>>
>>
>
>If that creates a security issue, you can try chown apache /dev/lp0
>That makes Apache own the parallel port, so only Apache (and root) can access
>it.
>
>AFAIK anyway.
>
>Greetings,
>Koen
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