We have many printers scattered in several buildings. Users log in a
few central servers from xterms, and from these servers they send
print jobs to the micro-computers attached to the printers. We need to
control who can print in which printer.
Presently I have coded directly the usernames or groups in the
lpd.perms file of the micro-computer, but this is not scalable. We
need lpd to consult ldap servers to check if a given user can print in
that printer. This could be done via PAM and the libpam-ldap module,
or directly with ldap.
Another alternative is that lpr itself check the user/printer
association via PAM or LDAP. Presently this is not doable because the
only program that looks at lpd.perms is lpd.
How can this be done? If not possible, how can one solve this control
problem?
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