[KLUG Members] lp que management

[Dirk H Bartley]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> 
> > >Anyone use any lp que management software.
> >
> > If you find any decent queue management software let me know,  I've looked for
> > *YEARS*.
> >
> > All I want is a nice GTK (M$-Windows-esque) application that lets be pick a
> > queue, see the jobs, and cancel, hold, or release.  Promotion would be nice, but
> > I don't much care.  And works with stock RH LPRng.
> >
> > It's looking like I'm going to have to write something myself, ick....
> >
> > >Preferably web based, preferably php or perl
> > >so that I have a prayer of changing it if I need.
> > >I want to be able to give certain users
> > >the ability to manage print jobs.
> >
> > The bugger is how you do such a thing securely (minus kerberos).  The web server
> > runs as nobody or httpd,  does nobody o httpd have privilages to cancel, hold,
> > release, or promote print jobs?
> 
> Would it work to put user nobody in group "lp"?
> Only a guess, I never tried it with Linux.
> 
That still does not solve the issue of someone canceling someone elses jobs evan if it
works.  Heck just use system and sudo from within a php script to allow apache to cancel
(or promote) a job.  I just wondered if some project had already been started that someone
could recommend.

Dirk