setting correct default permissions on /dev/parport*

[bscipioni]

I know - who uses parallel ports any more? People like me with an excellent, but old, HP OfficeJetPro 1150C. This is an old problem marked [SOLVED] in the following link to nowhere:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?p=571177

I'm at Fedora 13 - 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE

Problem
1. /dev/parport0 is not found by sane unless you reset permissions after each boot
2. hplip udev rules only seem to support usb devices.
3. there are no/dev/parport[0-9] rules in udev/rules.d anymore
4. Did I read something about these ports being handled by HAL ACLs? If so, how do you do it?

default:
ls -laF /dev/parport0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Jun 23 07:48 /dev/parport0

must do at each boot:
sudo chmod 666 /dev/parport0

someone surely knows the solution to this problem - thanks

[PabloTwo]

Just add each user who needs to access that port to the "lp" group. Then you won't need to reset permissions.

[bscipioni]

Yes, I could do that. Is that the "recommended" approach though - from a security perspective?
Also, I still wonder why the parport rules disappeared in udev/rules.d since Fedora 8 - usually changes are done for a reason - well ... at least sometimes thanks.

[PabloTwo]

Well, you could create your own udev rule for the device paraport and set the permissions to 666 with that, but it just seems much easier to add the user(s) to the associated group. It's what I do for user access to I/O ports such as /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyS0, which are associated with the "dialout" group.

Back in F8 I used to modify one of the existing udev rules and set permissions to 666 for one of the above. But as you've noted, many of those rules are now absent in later releases of Fedora. I now just add myself to the dialout group for user access and am done with it.

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From a strict security point of view, yes, that would be the preferred way, as you could limit which user(s) have access to the printer. On a home network, I doubt that would be an issue though.

[bscipioni]

Thanks for the feedback. I still wonder WHY those udev rules disappeared.