[cups.general] Controlling access to a printer by password

Henri S henri at stmargarets.school.nz
Wed Nov 12 13:25:30 PST 2008


Hi

Two possibilies which are both free open source systems and which
intergrate with PyKota :

	(1) http://www.pykota.com/software/pykoticon/
	(2) http://www.lucidsystems.org/printignworks/printagent

Hope this helps.

>
>Hi
>
>I run a school network and would like to limit access to the colour
>printear. Ideally, I would like cups to ask for a valid password before
>acicepting a job on to the queue. It's not enough to limit using valid
>usecrs/groups as I only want to let pupils print in colour when I think
>ite is worthwhile on a job-by-job basis. Left to themselves they'd kill
>seeveral trees and produce enough pollution to kill a small planet every
>deay.
>
>At the moment, I have to enable printer sharing as and when I want, but
>th is relies on me remembering to switch it off again afterwards.
>
>Relying on keeping the queue stopped and letting anyone queue jobs before
>Rmanually removing the duds and duplicates would take too much time.
>
>Is there an easier way of doing this? I wondered about .htaccess on the
>pr inter uri or something in printers.conf, but haven't discovered it so
>frar.
>
>Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>Nick





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