Bug 252837 – Bad device ownership for hp usb printers.

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2008-12-28 18:51:53 UTC]

The problem: with hplip installed and udev used (pretty standard setup), the /dev/usb/lp0 device is mode 660, owned by root:plugdev. This plugdev is troublesome, because it should be lp to allow printing by cups. This is what hplip's 70-hpmud.rules file was intended for, but it's ineffective.

Solution: will attach a proposed patch which fixes the problem on my system.

[Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2008-12-28 18:53:15 UTC]

Created attachment 176642 [details, diff]
70-hpmud.rules.patch

This is a patch against /etc/udev/rules.d/70-hpmud.rules, which is part of net-print/hplip-2.8.6b, the current stable version for amd64.

[Comment 2 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2010-01-15 13:59:51 UTC]

Paweł: This WORKSFORME. Is it still a problem for you?
i have net-print/hplip-2.8.6b and 
bangert@marsupilami ~ $ ls -l /dev/usb/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2010-01-15 14:56 /dev/usb/lp0

[Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-01-15 14:21:44 UTC]

Let's close it for now and I can reopen in case I detect it again. It's on a machine I don't have remote access to, and rarely access physically.