[cups.general] Filter Printer List from cups-get-dests

Brian Kroth bpkroth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 18:27:33 PDT 2010


Don Felix <dfelix at cadence.com> 2010-09-16 16:53:
> For a situation where the print server has a few hundred print queues
> configured, it is desirable to enable users to specify a printer
> interest list.  (classic way is a ~/.printers file with a line like:
> _all: printer1,printer2,printer3
> 
> I actually wrap the lpstat command with a script so lpstat -a will
> honor that line in ~/.printers.
> Is there any way to do the same for clients such as firefox that call
> the API to get the printer list?

This doesn't work for user specific lists, but for hosts I've
accomplished something similar with browsing clients and the apache
style Allow/Deny From directives.

Brian
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