[635] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
AFP Resouces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Mon Oct 30 14:04:49 2000
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:04:54 -0500
To: rclarke@mitvma.mit.edu
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: printdel@MIT.EDU
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Rocklyn,
Here is my piece of the pie.
The current scenario works like this. ASCII print file is generated from
MITSIS on VMS, sent to VM via jnet/rscs. Print file is 'owned' by
production userid regprod, PSF processes the print file to merge the afp
resources to the ASCII text to send to the printer, we have a security
kludge in place, using vmsecure and individual mini disks for the AFP
resources. What this means is that the overlay(s), formdef and pagedef, and
other special fonts and page segments, are stored on minidisk x, vmsecure
access list to disk x includes regprod, so that regprod can print the file
using the resources, but userid durland cannot.
What the new scenario should look like:
application server MITSIS, residing on a compaq alpha machine will generate
an ASCII print file via the lpr (klpr) command, pointing to the IPM server
on plunder. The afp resources for the print job will reside in a AIX
directory that only contains the resources for that job. At this point I
am assuming that there will be an individual logical destination for each
separate "X" form. What we need to have happen is that only certain users
can submit a print file to that logical destination, and therefore use the
resources.
Or that anyone can send a file to that logical destination, but only
authorized users can access the afp resources, for the output to print
correctly.
Or both.....authorization at the logical destination and afp resource level.
And how that authorization/authentication happens. Is it by acl list to
the logical destination, and resources......as well as aix permissions on
at the directory or file level?
Lynne
Lynne E. Durland
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