[redhat-lspp] printing

[Gene Czarcinski]

As I have looked over the messages on this mailing list I see that there are 
plans to enhance printing for the MLS (and MCS) environments.  However, I 
have not seen much about how this will work (from a capabilities not a code 
perspective).

1.  Will I be able to run multiple copies of cups for different printers 
(e.g., a secret cups and a secret:moonbeam cups) or will a single cups daemon 
handle multiple printers.  I prefer multiple cups since then I do not need to 
trust the cups code to do the right thing.

2.  Will there be a banner page which says (more or less), everything which 
follows will be "sensitivity label" or below since it is perfectly OK to 
print an unclassified file on a secret printer.

3.  Is the intent really to put the sensitivity label (level plus any 
categories) at the top/bottom of each page of output?  When happens when I am 
printing an openoffice.org document which may have such marking already?

4.  How will the sensitivity label:category assigned to a file be sent to a 
printer from an application such as openoffice.org (or a2ps for that matter)?

5. One though that occurs to me is to have a separate queue for each 
sensitivity and/or category that a printer can handle.  This could work but 
seems a bit kludgy to me.

Gene