[Techtalk] cups

[Wolf Rising]

So far, this looks like a promising option

lpadmin -p printer_name -u deny:username

then the user couldn't hop to another machine hopefully.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Raquel <raquel at thericehouse.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:03:49 -0400
> Wolf Rising <wolfrising at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We have a color network printer running on cups to a bunch of linux
>> workstations.
>>
>> We unfortunately have one user who is abusing his print privileges.
>>
>> Is there a way to easily either prevent the user or the workstation
>> he sits at from being
>> able to access this printer but still access the black and white
>> printers?
>>
>
> Are you the one who has access to the configuration files for cups?
> I believe that certain IP addresses can be explicitly denied access
> in cupsd.conf.
>
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