From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 13:47:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392F137B5C5 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27702; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20000716164658.A25557@netmonger.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature References: <200007142139.RAA88779@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Garance A Drosihn on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:32:18PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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