Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature Message-ID: <20000716164658.A25557@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <v04210113b597aec12e89@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:32:18PM -0400 References: <200007142139.RAA88779@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <v0421010db59547b0a7e1@[128.113.24.47]> <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com> <v04210113b597aec12e89@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:32:18PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here > >proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER > >environment variable to something like > > > > PRINTER=queuename@spooler.do.main > > > >louie > > For what it's worth, I think that feature is a little too helpful, > and I would not want that ability on our (RPI) public unix > workstations. I do want some capability to specify a hostname, > but not a wide-open capability to specify any hostname. Huh? Security through ignorance? -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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