PORTIA@engvax.UUCP (Portia 616-2635) (09/19/86)
> ...We would like to restrict the copying of files to ... [a laser] printer > over DECnet or otherwise to charge the users properly. Does anyone have a > solution? I submitted this question to the net a while back and have received many suggestions so far, the most common suggestion being a variation of $SET ACL/OBJ=DEV/ACL=(IDENT=user,ACCESS=NONE) txnn: Unfortunately, ACL does NOT work on a spooled queue! I suppose this is a bug that should be SPR'ed. However, we could do the following: >... Just don't make the device spooled! >The queues and associated commands will work just fine - all that won't work >is copying directly to the device, which will always fail to allocate the >device...Or, spool the device to a disk on which the DECnet default account >has no quota. this can be set up, even though we don't enable quota currently. > Or we could use proxy and/or get rid of the default decnet account. > It has drawbacks: > > - You have to disable ALL default access to the system or people > will just specify a null account (NODE""::) and avoid the > proxy; > - You have a lot of administrative overhead maintaining all those > accounts you might otherwise have never created. > - there are other reasons for keeping the default decnet account... Thanks for all the suggestions. -- Portia Bjorndahl UUCP -- {allegra|ihnp4}!scgvaxd!engvax!portia Hughes Aircraft Co. ARPA -- engvax!portia@csvax.caltech.edu (213) 616-2635