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Old 11-07-2008
Question printer security fedora core 5 / 6
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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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printers.conf

printers.conf(5)					      Easy Software Products						  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

       Accepting
	    Specifies whether or not the printer is accepting new jobs.

       Info
	    Specifies human-readable text describing the printer.

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

       DeviceURI
	    Specifies the device URI for a printer.

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

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

       StateMessage
	    Specifies the message associated with the state.

SEE ALSO

       classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), mime.types(5), CUPS Software Administrators Manual, CUPS Interface Design Descrip-
       tion, http://localhost:631/documentation.html

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22 June 2000						    Common UNIX Printing System 					  printers.conf(5)