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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Remote printing IRIX 3.3.1
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.150715.25685@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:07:15 GMT
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In article <9012110417.aa06748@VGR.BRL.MIL> FL17@DLRVMBS.BITNET writes:
>
>Remote printing works nicely via the lp account with no password.
>However, anyone can log in as user "lp" with no password on our machines.
>Does anyone have a method to inhibit interactive logins as user "lp"
>while maintaining the remote printing feature ?

Wait a second -- there's something I don't understand.  Ordinarily the
lp account is set up without a default login shell.  I guess I had assumed
that this would inhibit interactive use of the machine by a person trying
to login as "lp".  On a regular user account, a login shell is specified.
So could someone tell me what does happen if someone does try to login as
lp? Or as uucp, for that matter...

	-P.
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