Printers Group - for Access Control

[Michael Sweet]

angelb wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Is there a way to delegate a number of printer queues to a specific
> group only? In other words, if I have a server that serves printers
> for accounting and marketing, can I delegate acctng group to administer
> printers that belongs only to accounting and not have access to
> printers in mktg?
 > ...

The requesting-user-name-allowed and -denied attributes (available
via the "-u allow:..." and "-u deny:..." options with lpadmin, or
the "set allowed users" button in the web interface) can be used to
limit which printers are shown based on the username or group
membership.

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