Restricting Access to a specific printer based on regex/wildcard

[John E. Vincent]

Hi all,

Is it possible to restrict access to a specific printer based on a regex/wildcard? Here's my example:

We have two types of printers defined for each location, a check and a contract. We're doing a massive laptop deployment and want to make to use our existing load balanced CUPS setup to allow those laptops to print at each site. Our current naming convention is sitenumber-check and sitenumber-contract. I want to restrict remote sites from printer to *-check but allow *-contract.

I understand how to setup the access rules but I'm just curious if I can control it on a more global scale. My only other option is to move all of the check printers to another location path such as /printers/check and restrict that but that's a big undertaking that will require some application level work and won't be easily deployed.

Thanks in advance,
John E. Vincent