On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:19, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Tony Dietrich wrote: > .... > > > I believe the functions of lprng are duplicated by the cups-lpd functions > > shipped with FC3 onwards. > > > > Can your applications not use cups-lpd? There are a large number of > > wrappers available for almost all printers that linux supports. > > I don't know what Boris's problem is, but this is my problem: > > I have a redhat 9 machine with lprng. > > I've written a few perl cgi scripts that are used > to maintain windows and linux users, windows shares, and printing. > > All printer queues are raw queues, the windows > drivers does all the formatting, so I have no need > of Linux drivers. > > In lprng I can control at the user and more important, > at the group level who can print and control printer > queues. > > This is done by having the cgi script modifying the /etc/lpd.perms file. > > This file has lines like: > > ACCEPT SERVICE=C SERVER PRINTER=hp46sdr_ps REMOTEGROUP=hp46sdr > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER PRINTER=hp46sdr_ps REMOTEGROUP=hp46sdr > ACCEPT SERVICE=X SERVER PRINTER=hp46sdr_ps REMOTEGROUP=hp46sdr > REJECT SERVICE=X SERVER PRINTER=hp46sdr_ps > > ACCEPT SERVICE=C SERVER PRINTER=kem5100_ps REMOTEGROUP=kem5100 > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER PRINTER=kem5100_ps REMOTEGROUP=kem5100 > ACCEPT SERVICE=X SERVER PRINTER=kem5100_ps > > Anyone can print on kem5100_ps, only members of the group > kem5100 can control this queue. > > Only members of the group hp46sdr can print and control > the queue hp46sdr_ps. > > I havn't found a way of doing this in CUPS. > > When this server is updated to Fedora at some time, > I would need lprng for keeping this rather useful setup. > > Mogens > > -- > Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department > Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark > Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 > Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk Configure your <location> directives in cups on Fedora You can set up access controls there. -- Tony
