[1317] in Moira
Re: print.gen updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Feb 3 19:46:14 2000
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To: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:10:37 EST."
<200002030110.UAA331057@athyra.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:46:09 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> - changes the generated lpd.perms files to allow the world to use
> the "lpc printcap" call.
There used to be two color printers (in copytech?) that accepted LPR
from anyone in the universe, and relied on the fact that the queue
names were secret for "security". Ha ha. People would print to some
well-known hesiod name, and the print server would forward the job to
the secret name. I think Dave set this up. Anyway, I believe this is
done now with printcap.local entries, but it's not in io or mulch's
printcap.local, which means that either it doesn't exist any more, or
it's on pp, which we can't check right now.
Anyway, if it still exists, and is still supported, then this part of
the patch becomes controversial.
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> char name[MACHINE_NAME_SIZE];
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
> + init_acls();
>
There should always be a blank line between the end of variable
declarations and the first statement.
-- Dan
