lprng and changing to secure port
I'm trying to get my output to a network print server. I have lprng
installed, but I get the "infamous" malformed from address message:
eyryttyp0:hawk>lpr .cshrc
rint-1.iastate.edu: -LPdaemon: Malformed from address
job 'cfA785eyry' transfer to he183-lj5@print-1.iastate.edu failed after 1
attempts
eyryttyp0:hawk>
according to the /usr/doc/lprng/README.LPRng_to_lpr_spooling.gz, this means
that it isn't happy that I'm not sending from a secure port. It also says,
POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
It appears that most implementations do not check for the exact
range 721-731, but only that the connection originates from a
reserved port. You can extend the range of ports by changing the
originate_port=721 731
value in the defaults (src/common/defaults.c) file or in the lpd.conf
file. I recommend the following:
originate_port=512 1022
OUr vincent (athena) system is pretty big on security, and this dosen't seem
to work.
Does anyone have any ideas short of downloading the source doing my own make?
Also, from our tech folks,
Ah, I see that you are not using your PV username on this machine.
To PV the user 'hawk' is somebody else.
Since changing your username on your linux box is probably
not something your really want to do, the other option is
to modify lprng so that it just always claims you are
'rhawkins'. This should go on the 'P' card/line of the
control file. This shouldn't be to hard to find.
I assume that this is the file /etc/lpd.conf. But from the docs, i can't see
the correct form.
Is this as simple as adding the line
P=rhawkins
?
rick
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