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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I dialed as 'root' then switched terminals and logged in as 'user' 
> and ssh followed by the login@URL tells me 'permission denied'.  
> Telnet 'cannot open connection'.  I had already done chmod +x ssh 
> for it to be executable by everyone (it would not work even as root 
> before this).

Try chmod 777 ssh, to allow everyone full access.

> I am trying to follow instructions to go online as user, also 
> trying to see if I can print email at my shell account to my own 
> printer, as 'user'. I can print it offline as user (text) by 
> setting up printcap and some filters, actually text uses the 
> default lpr line, I think.
> (If I dial the shell account in DOS and then read a mail with pine 
> I can type Y and answer y and it prints the mail from there to my 
> printer).
> 
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc  (these lines activate the printer port?)
> insmod lp        (line printer?)
> lpd              (starts printing demon)
> 
> Switch terminals and login as user (no password requested)
> 
> lpr filename   - it prints on lp0 (default lpr) when I am offline.
> I forget how to stop a print job - kill the process number?

I have a cancel command on my system. YMMV. On other systems it's
lp-and-some-letter-of-the-alphabet. I forget which.

> I want to try this online but I cannot even get online as user.
> 
> Why is lpr an 'offline printer'?

I'm not sure I know what you mean by that. Who says it's an offline
printer?

> I already did chown -R user /home/user so that I could download 
> files to that directory while online.
> 
> How do I get ssh and telnet to work for 'user'?

Give everyone permission to use them and any devices they require.

David
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