[GLLUG] CUPS policy settings

Michael George george at idealso.com
Tue May 8 13:00:19 EDT 2007


On Tue, May 8, 2007 11:31 am, Sean O'Malley wrote:
> This is what I have been trying to get in a position to be in position to
> do something similar around here for the last 5 years, and the 3 years
> before that at the State of Michigan. I was going to use openldap and grid
> computing but.. (i would rather pay a programmer then pay someone to
> babysit licensing.) .. very similar though.

Well, unfortunately, I need to make a case for even migrating to it.  The
people here won't be too excited about it so I need to be able to tell
them that it will behave similar to our current environment.

> I want your notes. I will help when I get time but it was on my agenda for
> later in the summer. There are a couple of missing pieces for the
> transformation from the lpr protocol to the ipp protocol that havent been
> worked out yet (in our specific system). Printing is -first- on the
> agenda that needs to be taken care of here before we can even
> think about making a big push for the rest of it..
>
> TO answer your question, I think I would try the BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny
> and see if you can put them in a policy on a per printer basis. And I
> think you inherit group/nest policies like you can with hostgroups on
> nagios to make it much easier to manage (but harder to initially set-up
> because you have to think through it and test more...).

The list of operations that can be controlled by policy
(http://cups.org/documentation.php/policies.html) doesn't list browsing...

-Michael George


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