-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-07-13 at 23:37 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
It could be the nscd daemon, it is configured to do that. Did you say which version of suse runs the server? It is weird, because that daemon crashes quite often, it is buggy as hell.
Thus, in your situation, "rcnscd restart" should have worked as well.
To which all I can do is respond by saying "OMG"!! That scares the devil out of me! Caching passwords seems like it is going to create a LOT of confusion, I could ask why? but not sure I really want to know! I am running SuSE 11.0 on the server. I had troubles with 11.1 so dropped back to 11.0 as I could not have that machine down for very long...
A question for which I have no answer. Years ago I used to remove that service on small machines, but currently it seems that there are services or programs which relie on that daemon.
Maybe you can configure the print server not to request password from the client machines - depends on your needs, maybe being on your local network is enough auth.
Ok I am attempting to follow your suggestion, and the path seems to have lead me deeper and deeper into the quagmire of PAM... According to the documentation, there are files under /etc/pam.d/ and each one handles the authentication process for the service for which they are named, AND there is a file called cups. So I started to mess around with this file, setting it up to deny all logins, accept any login etc and NOTHING I do to this file seems to have any affect on authentication when I invoke the lp command.
Uh, oh... I should have mentioned that you only need to reconfigure cups, not pam, for this trick. It should be in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Most settings have this (I don't have a network): AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow There is an online manual in the cups server which should say how. http://localhost:631/help/ Getting Started Command-Line Printing and Options Glossary Managing Operation Policies Access Control Recipes http://localhost:631/help/policies.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY=#TABLE02 it says you need: Order deny,allow Allow from @LOCAL at least for printing and job control operations, not for configuration. See in the table that you can select using system passwords, or cups mantained passwrods, too. That could be another option, and I thought it was the default. There are some samples on the help file. Pam and cups... I don't know how they interact, I have never touched there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpcokgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X+cACgjlhrwdqhlrWLIwGAfFxjskg+ jvMAmQE0RKT/b9M9WoKtf0GR5Q9OjzJX =4vsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org