Hi all,

I'd be interested to know if anyone has implemented a group 
based permissions system in LPRng, using kerberos.

I'll explain what I mean by this.  We are developing a new 
computing infrastructure, with authorisation based around 
kerberos but also including an LDAP addition to this, allowing for 
authorisation by groups and so on, e.g. this group of people is 
allowed to use a certain service, and so on.  There will be a 
netgroup style interface provided with this, which leads to...

I would like to use this system in the LPRng permissions file so 
that I can say that, e.g. GROUP @special_users can print to 
particular printers.  However, the GROUP value in LPRng is 
evaulated in the context of USER (which comes from the job 
control file) and I obviously need it evaluated in the context of 
AUTHUSER - the kerberos principals.

Has anyone attempted this kind of approach, or has any ideas 
on how to implement it?

Many thanks for any comments.

Toby Blake
University of Edinburgh


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