Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!wiltse From: wiltse@sgi.com (Wiltse Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Network printing Summary: see addclient(1) Message-ID: <1991Jan3.032156.14076@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 3 Jan 91 03:21:56 GMT References: <9012210735.aa15257@VGR.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 17 In article <9012210735.aa15257@VGR.BRL.MIL> FL17@DLRVMBS.BITNET writes: >To: info-iris@brl.mil 21-Dec-1990 > >In summary, the following recommendations were received: > > - give lp a password or disable lp login and create > appropriate .rhosts file under the lp account > (works nicely) Irix has a command called ``addclient'' for this purpose. It is not our recommendation to open up the lp account to all users as was suggested, but rather to set up an appropriate .rhosts file. The addclient program, which is a shell script you can inspect, creates a .rhosts entry suitable for the network printing scripts shipped with our systems. -Wiltse Carpenter