[KLUG Members] lp que management

[Bruce Smith]

> > > 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.

Once the web server has permissions to cancel jobs, you can code
authorization schemes in PHP.  (assuming you're writing the thing)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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