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From: jon@astro.ucla.edu (Jonathan Eisenhamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: How does lpr decide on the user?
Keywords: Software
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Date: 11 Oct 89 22:36:45 GMT
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To All Spots,

A simple question: How does lpr decide on who is going to be the owner of
a printing job?  In a program (see below), I change the real and effective
uid of a process and then submit a print job.  The "whoami" correctly
shows the change in uid, but an lpq reveals that the print job started by
lpr is owned by the uid who ran the program, not the uid changed in the
program.

This is on a Sun3 running 4.0.1.  Any RTFM's or other pointers would be
appreciated.

Jonathan Eisenhamer
jon@astro.ucla.edu
jon@uclastro.bitnet
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