> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 2 03:38:22 2002
> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 12:33:58 +0200
> From: Rabellino Sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Urgent, please ...
>
> John Perkins wrote:
> >
> I wish to thanks all for your replies.
> We've found the big mistake!
> There was a print job from a solaris (System V) spooler from a "root" user; we do
>not allow the spool from root, but this cause the lpd
> client to retry every minute to spool the job, so we've changed our perms to NO
>print from root, but allow the spool...
> Maybe this behaviour could be changed in the lprng , or is a mistake from the client
>?
>
> bye.
> --
> Dott. Sergio Rabellino
>
> Technical Staff
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Torino (Italy)
> Member of the Internet Society
>
> http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser
> Tel. +39-0116706701
> Fax. +39-011751603
Try the following, which is precisely for this situation.
lpd.perms:
# accept all jobs at submission time
ACCEPT SERVICE=R
REJECT SERVICE=P REMOTEUSER=root
^^^^ this checks AFTER the job has been spooled.
^^^^ and add the other checks as well here, with
^^^^ SERVICE=P rather than SERVICE=R
....
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com)
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