[cups.general] How to restrict printing by users

[Jerome Alet]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:13:06AM -0400, Willi Eggeling wrote:

> I'm currently building a unix based network in a german school. 
> Every pupil has got an own username. they have to pay a certain fee 
> to print a page. now i want to build a program which stores the 
> amount a pupil has in a database and bind cups to that so cups looks 
> into that db and checks if that user is allowed to print the number 
> of pages he wants to print. 
> 
> Do you have any ideas how to realize this?

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  Sure, just use PyKota !
  
  It features exactly what you want and much more.
  
  See http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation
  
</shameless>

bye

Jerome Alet