G'day,
  I got this bug report yesterday and thought I would pass it on.  The
problem is that lprng with its default lpd.perms allongs anyone who can reach
you to be able to print on your printers.

I'm not sure this is such a good idea.  Any comments about this? Also what
would be the best way to fix this without breaking things. Unfortuntely
I don't think
REJECT SERVICE=X FORWARD
would work.

----- Forwarded message from John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

The potato version of this package installs a lpd.perms that, while it does restrict 
the ability of people to run lpc on the system, does however allow any
person to print to any printer on the machine on which it is installed, by
default.

This is very bad -- no package should open up local hardware to world write
like this.

----- End forwarded message -----

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