Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??
Hello, Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch o' machines on it, all of which are listed in a local DNS server. What I'd really like to be able to do is just say: Allow any machine from this local domain to connect to lpd. The documentation for hosts.lpd doesn't help out on format here, and the source code for lpd.c seems to confirm that there is, indeed, no wildcarding supported. Any other options? Thanks, mark... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??
Mark wrote: Hello, Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch o' machines on it, all of which are listed in a local DNS server. What I'd really like to be able to do is just say: Allow any machine from this local domain to connect to lpd. The documentation for hosts.lpd doesn't help out on format here, and the source code for lpd.c seems to confirm that there is, indeed, no wildcarding supported. Any other options? I wouldn't normally chime in like this, but I want to add a me too here. In my case it would be perfectly acceptable to eliminate all host checking on the part of LPD, since the LPD port is firewalled off from everything but our local network anyway. Haven't been able to find any way to do this (or what Mark asks for) in the docs anywhere. Am I missing something? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??
At 1:19 PM -0500 1/28/03, Bill Moran wrote: Mark wrote: Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch of machines on it, all of which are listed in a local DNS server. What I'd really like to be able to do is just say: Allow any machine from this local domain to connect to lpd. The documentation for hosts.lpd doesn't help out on format here, and the source code for lpd.c seems to confirm that there is, indeed, no wildcarding supported. Any other options? I wouldn't normally chime in like this, but I want to add a me too here. In my case it would be perfectly acceptable to eliminate all host checking on the part of LPD, since the LPD port is firewalled off from everything but our local network anyway. Haven't been able to find any way to do this (or what Mark asks for) in the docs anywhere. Am I missing something? The docs do not admit this, but iirc you can list a netgroup in your /etc/hosts.lpd file. Unfortunately, that is not a useful or convenient option for many users. I have been thinking I should add simple pattern-matching support, but I haven't decided exactly how I'd like that to work. I will move that higher in my list of things to do to lpr. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
