Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:30:01 -0800 (PST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/9485: lpr uses wrong username (3.0-R) Message-ID: <199901181230.EAA13899@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/9485; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/9485: lpr uses wrong username (3.0-R) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:21:02 +0100 (CET) On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:08:05 +0100 (CET), Konrad Heuer > <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> said: > > > Login on a 3.0-R system as root and stop an arbitrary printer > > queue to make sure that you've time enough to look a the queue. > > Print a file (lpr). The su to a normal user and print again. > > Take a look at the queue by lpq. Both jobs are owned by root. > > This was intentional -- all files are printed under the login of the > user, unless no login context is present, in which case it falls back > to the old mechanism. See setlogin(2). The intent is to make life > easier for large sites where many people have root access and still > want to distinguish their print requests. > I didn't get any further reply so I have to send a message again. I've got the impression you are involved in the new code of the lpr/lpd subsystem in 3.0-RELEASE, or at least, you know who is. The whole thing is very very serious for my application. I've build a number of printer servers which run under FreeBSD, and the number increases and should further increase. Three servers are the central printer servers in the computer center of the university of Goettingen and several Max-Plack-Institutes. The older systems with 2.2.x-RELEASE behave very well. Now I've to boxes with SCSI controllers not supported before 3.0-R; thus I have to use it. I *must* be able to do printer accounting and I must be able to do queue control (see lpc problem bin/9362). I will help to look at the code if it is necessary but I really need a positive feedback of one of the FreeBSD developers that the bugs I've reported are recognized as what they are -- bugs. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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