[redhat-lspp] cups uds and lspp patches

[George C. Wilson]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:51:28PM -0500, Matt Anderson wrote:
> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Suppose you had 2 printers, confidential and secret. If you printed a secret 
> > document, would it always go to the secret printer?
> 
> I hadn't planned on putting logic in to guess the user's intention.  If
> there is time maybe...
> 
> > Also, all the audit messages have 1 for the results param. This means success. 
> 
> So far all the messages are about success cases.
> 
> > Will all printing be considered successful? What happens if both printers are 
> > confidential and a secret document needs printing. Would that fail or just be 
> > queued?
> 
> Once I finish the dev allocator work the printers will have range
> support.  When a user tries to print something outside the range a
> failure audit will occur during IsAuthorized() which will get propagated
> back to the user on the lpr line.
> 
> -matt
> 

The device allocator should handle all these situations.  That's it's
raison d'etre.  BTW, your srpm builds and installs on ppc64.

-- 
George Wilson <ltcgcw at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center