[cups.general] Security and lp command and -u option

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 10:26 , Johannes Meixner wrote:

> On Mar 20 07:16 cedric chambault wrote (shortened):
>> lp command has a "-U" option to specify USERNAME.
> ...
>> I don't know how to block "-U" option to prevent users to steal  
>> quota from others !
>
> man cancel
> ;-)

More seriously, seems to me -U only makes sense if you're using some  
form of authentication.  (then again I'm kinda unable to use CUPS any  
more until I can replace all our ppds --- changing ppd parser to be  
so pedantic that no windows ppds work any more doesn't help much with  
compatibility...)

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