[K12OSN] Re: Blocking users from printing to network printer

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 23:58:56 UTC 2006


On 2/14/06, Dan Young <dan_young at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> You are running CUPS in a fashion, if you used system-config-printer.
> Take a look at this sample chapter from Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook
> (published by O'Reilly). Recipe 14.9 covers restricting print queues to
> certain users.
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/chapter/ch14.pdf
>
> Short story: Sounds like you're looking for the AllowUser/DenyUser
> parameters in /etc/cups/printers.conf

Thanks Dan and Trond. It's working great now. I used lpadmin to edit
printers.conf as the cookbook specified.

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Robert Arkiletian
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