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Special Forums Cybersecurity printer security fedora core 5 / 6 Post 302255986 by jhalbert on Friday 7th of November 2008 02:01:46 PM
Old 11-07-2008
Question printer security fedora core 5 / 6
Ok
Here we go I have been totally thrown for a loop trying to lock out printers from select users on my network. I am running fedora core 5 and fedora core 6. I have IP printers in different departments through out the network. Each department only wants users in their department to print to their printer; currently any user on the network can send pri nt jobs to any department.

I thought that this would be a quick fix....boy was I wrong! Days later i am still trying to get this to work! So far I have tried the following solutions to fix the problem:
1. I went into CUPs and set an allowed users list(here I used the machine hostname as the username; also tried it usining the IP address)
2.I edited the cupsd.conf file to deny all and allow on the machine IP addresses that I listed.
<Location /printers/admindeptpr01>
order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 192.168.0.12
Allow From 192.168.0.13
Allow From 192.168.0.14
...
Allow From 192.168.0.36
</Location>
3.I also edited the printers.conf file to only allow specific users.
Also I stoped and restarted the cups service after each change made to conf file.

If there is something that I am missing here, please point it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

printers.conf

printers.conf(5)                                                    Apple Inc.                                                    printers.conf(5)

NAME

       printers.conf - printer configuration file for cups

DESCRIPTION

       The  printers.conf  file  defines the local printers that are available. It is normally located in the /etc/cups directory and is generated
       automatically by the cupsd(8) program when printers are added or deleted.

       Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.

DIRECTIVES

       <Printer name> ... </Printer>
            Defines a specific printer.

       <DefaultPrinter name> ... </Printer>
            Defines a default printer.

       Accepting Yes

       Accepting No
            Specifies whether the printer is accepting new jobs.

       AllowUser [ user @group ... ]
            Allows specific users and groups to print to the printer.

       DenyUser [ user @group ... ]
            Prevents specific users and groups from printing to the printer.

       DeviceURI uri
            Specifies the device URI for a printer.

       ErrorPolicy abort-job

       ErrorPolicy retry-current-job

       ErrorPolicy retry-job

       ErrorPolicy stop-printer
            Specifies the error policy for the printer.

       Info text
            Specifies human-readable text describing the printer.

       JobSheets banner banner
            Specifies the banner pages to use for the printer.

       KLimit number
            Specifies the job-k-limit value for the printer.

       Location text
            Specifies human-readable text describing the location of the printer.

       OpPolicy name
            Specifies the operation policy for the printer.

       PageLimit number
            Specifies the job-page-limit value for the printer.

       PortMonitor monitor
            Specifies the port monitor for a printer.

       QuotaPeriod seconds
            Specifies the job-quota-period value for the printer.

       Shared Yes

       Shared No
            Specifies whether the printer is shared.

       State idle

       State stopped
            Specifies the initial state of the printer (Idle or Stopped)

       StateMessage text
            Specifies the message associated with the state.

       StateTime seconds
            Specifies the date/time associated with the state.

SEE ALSO

       classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), mime.types(5),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc.

29 April 2009                                                          CUPS                                                       printers.conf(5)
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