Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:25 PM -0700 7/14/00, Thomas D. Dean wrote: How would this work with printers on local networks? Say, a print server 192.168.1.73? If you do not have a special DNS entry for that printer, then this new synthetic-printcap option would do nothing for you. In other words, you would continue

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER environment variable to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] louie For what it's worth, I think that feature is a

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400, Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Huh? Security through ignorance? Remember that `lpr' is setuid-root and uses a ``privileged'' port for its communications. Many sites may still be using trusted-host ``authentication'' internally, and LPRng's

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Christopher Masto
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:15:05PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400, Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Huh? Security through ignorance? Remember that `lpr' is setuid-root and uses a ``privileged'' port for its communications. Many sites may still

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:15:05PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400, Christopher Masto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Huh? Security through ignorance? Remember that `lpr' is setuid-root and uses a ``privileged''

Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
Around here, we have a convention that each printer has a record in the DNS for printername.lpd-spooler which points to the print server for that printer. It occurred to me that, if there are no local printers, no additional information is needed for lpr and lpd to operate -- thus obviating the

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:39 PM -0400 7/14/00, Garrett Wollman wrote: Around here, we have a convention that each printer has a record in the DNS for printername.lpd-spooler which points to the print server for that printer. It occurred to me that, if there are no local printers, no additional information is needed

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-14 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER environment variable to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-14 Thread Thomas D. Dean
How would this work with printers on local networks? Say, a print server 192.168.1.73? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message