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Re: Kerberized printing, the saga continues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Nov 17 15:38:37 2009
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:38:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> I propose, therefore, that we move these DORM Kerberized queues from LPRng
> to CUPS soon. I'm still testing, but so far that's proven fairly reliable
> in allowing the quick list to work again in DebAthena, as well as letting
> people print on the command line using the CUPS client. What I still need
> to test is making sure that clients can print to any of the CUPS servers
> and having their server do The Right Thing [tm] in handling the job (the
> servers bounce jobs between each other so that there is really one server
> to deliver the job to each printer--one server to handle all the spooling).
> That kind of testing shouldn't take long to do.
If you'd like to, it would almost certainly make sense to move Next's
printer, tree-eater, to CUPS and Kerberize it for testing. We've wanted
our printer to be Kerberized and access-restricted and switched to
Kerberized printing not much more than a year ago, but we gave that up
when moving the cluster to Debathena. I can check that Next Exec is okay
with this, and I'd be able to notice if something goes wrong in advance of
moving other dorms' printers to CUPS. (I don't particularly care if you
only require Kerberos auth from any principal, and don't ACL it at the
moment.)
Just curious -- will CUPS-native printers still let us get the weekly page
count reports from errors@?
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
