FL17@DLRVMBS.BITNET (12/21/90)
To: info-iris@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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Beyer | German Aerospace Research Establishment | Braunschweig Research Center | Institute for Flight Guidance | Flughafen | D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany | Phone: (0531) 395-2530 | Fax: (0531) 395-2550 | Email: fl17@dlrvmbs.bitnet | Email (local): beyer@bflsgu ---------------------------------------------------------------------
wiltse@sgi.com (Wiltse Carpenter) (01/03/91)
In article <9012210735.aa15257@VGR.BRL.MIL> FL17@DLRVMBS.BITNET writes: >To: info-iris@brl.mil 21-Dec-1990 > >In summary, the following recommendations were received: > > - give lp a password or disable lp login and create > appropriate .rhosts file under the lp account > (works nicely) Irix has a command called ``addclient'' for this purpose. It is not our recommendation to open up the lp account to all users as was suggested, but rather to set up an appropriate .rhosts file. The addclient program, which is a shell script you can inspect, creates a .rhosts entry suitable for the network printing scripts shipped with our systems. -Wiltse Carpenter