[GLLUG] CUPS policy settings

Michael George george at idealso.com
Sat May 5 16:10:14 EDT 2007


I'm curious if any of you have done complex setup of CUPS, like for an 
enterprise...  What we did for CRMC was interesting and cool and all 
that,but I need something a bit different.

Currently, we are using Netware to manage printer policies for the 
accounts in our building so that people only see listed in their apps 
the printers to which they are allowed to print.

I know CUPS has the Policy section in their config files that can be 
configured to limit access to job submission to printers with pretty 
fine-grained control.  Only works for local unix users, but I can kinda 
live with that for now.

My question is, has anyone here used these policies successfully?  If 
so, when someone tries to print from an app like OOo, does their list of 
possible printers include only those to which they can submit a job, or 
does it include all printers and they will get an error if they submit 
to a forbidden one?

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-Michael George
  Ideal Solutions, LLC


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