A.P. Lawrence

remote lpd user equivalency

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From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: Remote printing on server with parallel printer References: <20020328000713.GF7812@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:12:24 GMT

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Tony Lawrence propounded (on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:31:37PM +0000):
> | Sorry, I know that sounds a little harsh, but so often I see that people
> | don't seem to understand that user equivalency needs to be tested- and
> | not as root.  A simple "rcmd otherbox lp -dprinter3" establishes that 
> | very quickly-
> | you either can or you cannot.  If you can't, neither can lp.
> 
> Not necessarily.  An /etc/hosts.equiv file may not exist at all on a
> machine, thus preventing a non-root user from running rmcd, while an
> /etc/hosts.lpd file will still allow the 'lp' user to do its thing
> across the network.

Good point.  Technically accurate and I should have been more specific. 
  The important point is that if you (even temporarily) duplicate 
hosts.lpd to hosts.equiv, and cannot rcmd as suggested, then lp won't 
have equivalency either.  And that's an important debugging clue.

-- 
Tony Lawrence
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