Ticket #1019 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

Bad UI for passing jobs off to someone else

Reported by: geofft Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Upstream Utopia
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

Re #1018, you can kind of do this with sudo lpr -Usomeone -Pajax. You need to do this as root because LPR dates from the days when every machine on the network was trusted and we all ran NFS. In our environment we no longer trust that.

LPRng has an allow_user_setting variable, but it seems like there's no way to set this to "everyone". We should see if there is or send them a patch.

Of course, this is all using LPR directly to the Pharos server, and not via CUPS, so it probably won't work anyway.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed

WAYRTTD? \exists debathena-pharos-support

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

rlpr has no problem doing this without SUID root.

rlpr -Ugeofft -Pbw@mitprint.mit.edu black_square.pdf works just fine

debathena-pharos-support is also a thing and is documented.

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