Network printing

[FL17 at DLRVMBS.BITNET]

To: 			info-iris at brl.mil			21-Dec-1990

Network printing

Thanks to all of you who responded to my question on network printing
without allowing users to log in as user 'lp'.

In summary, the following recommendations were received:

	- use lpr on all machines (interesting)

	- use something unusable as default shell for lp
	  (network printing doesn't work)

	- give lp a password or disable lp login and create
	  appropriate .rhosts file under the lp account
	  (works nicely)

	- use /bin/true as default shell for lp
	  (network printing doesn't work)

Solution: I disabled the lp logins on all of our SGI machines
(lp:*: ...) and created a .rhost file for the lp account on the
machine which has access to the printers.

Thanks and season's greetings.

Ralf Beyer

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