Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re: authenticated printing

From: Howard Schultens <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:59:03 +0100

andrew morgan wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Peter J. Grabner wrote:
> 
> > Is there a possibility to tell netatalk to ignore printing requests
> > from certain machines / to allow printing from a small list of
> > machines only? We have listed the machines which should be allowed to
> > print in /etc/hosts.allow but this did not work.
> 
> There is no provision for this in papd, and printing only occurs over
> Appletalk, so tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/deny) won't work.
> 
> I have a patch to add authenticated printing, according to the Apple
> specs, to papd.  It lacks some polish but is functional.  Would this solve
> your problem?
> 
>         Andy

This is an issue of general interest (er, I mean "of interest to me,
too").  Could you post this to the list or make it available for
download?

Thanks,

--  Howard
 
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