Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:43:50 +0200 From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Cc: David Marec <david.marec@davenulle.org>, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Freebsd 9] [amd64] [USB] [HPLIP] what's the (new) right way to manage hplip usb-plugged printers, running Freebsd 9 Message-ID: <20111030004350.5ffb0e00@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: <20111029195852.GA90408@stack.nl> References: <4EAC0966.2050607@davenulle.org> <20111029195852.GA90408@stack.nl>
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Le Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:58:53 +0200, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 04:10:46PM +0200, David Marec wrote: > > So, what's should be the news group&user's rights required by > > HPLIP/cups on FreeBSD 9 ? > > > And, how to handle them with devd ? > > Use devfs rules. > > Pasting from http://www.stack.nl/~jilles/unix/freebsd-devfs.txt > > Create or edit /etc/devfs.rules and put something like this in it: > > [devfsrules_mybox=10] > add path 'fd0*' mode 660 The problem is that the printer appears as ugenXXX.Y, but other usb devices (disk, usb-key, ...) also have an entry in /dev/ugen/ You really don't want to allow the users to access these devices, but *only* the printer. This is why we use a devd rule that test the type of the device. I don't think we can do this with devfs. And the ugen number differs if the usb port is not always the same. Regards.
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