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- From: gerardi@sdr.slb.com (Paul Gerardi)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: ownership of spooled lwsrv files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.213130.2843@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:31:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.192520.17542@animal.er.bell.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug21.192520.17542@animal.er.bell.ca>, john@yo_dud.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John Frame) writes:
- >
- > We just recently installed CAP 6.0 pl100 and can now print to
- > our Unix printers using lwsrv - it works well.
- >
- > My question concerns the printing queue of these jobs. When
- > lpr sends jobs to the queue, the owner is specified and can
- > remove his/her own jobs if needed. However, a job from my
- > mac shows up as "root" owner because I suppose that is who
- > issued the lwsrv command. So I cannot remove any accidental
- > jobs from the queue because I do not have root access. Is
- > there something I'm missing? Please excuse my CAP ignorance.
- >
- Nope, nothing's missing. At patch-level 100, the the lpr jobs are forked as
- root owned (since lwsrv was running as root).
-
- What you want to get is the patches to bring you up to patch-level 125.
-
- One of the additions is using another lookaside file (called macusers) that
- you set up to map all your Chooser names to the correct unix name. The lpr
- jobs get setuid() to the unix name, so if you need to you can log into the
- unix box and lprm your job. If the Chooser name/unix name entry is not
- in the lookaside file...the printer prints out a page that gives the
- Mac chooser name, the job name and a "reason why we didn't let you print"
- message (from a file you can edit, of course).
-
- Real nifty stuff...
-
- -Paul
-
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- Paul Gerardi
- Schlumberger-Doll Research
- Computing Services
- gerardi@sdr.slb.com
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