print non privileaged file

[suju]

How a normal user can print a file owned by a lp user

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

chmod a+r filename

That will give enough access to read or print.

SEP

[suju]

Thanks Sen
But these file are created after giving lp command by another user & I wanted to take the printouts of these request(/usr/spool/lp/request/lp/*) on another printer & I cant change the owner of these files in a script which I am running from a normal user .profile file, though i have a root password.

[OldSchool · Accepted solution]

If I correctly understand, you want to change the destination of a an "lp" command issued by another user? If so, see the "lpalt" section of the lp man page. root access *is* required, or you have to be the user that issued the initial "lp".

NOTE: There may be issues if the original printer and the destination are dissimilar printers. I can't test that as everything here is config'ed as an lj4 (even when they aren't really)

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90689/lp.1.html

[suju]

Actually I have written a script in which according to the type of print file (Yacc,lex, text) I am doing some manipulation in the request files & then I am giving the lp command to these files, everything is working fine if I run this script from root, But I have to run this script thru normal user .profile, In that case a particular Lex file is having a user & group lp, for which I cant access(Cant issue lp cammand to that file again) from a normal user.
Pls help
Thanks

[OldSchool]

ok...see your other post regarding "priv command in profile" and sudo

[suju]

Thanks to all of you