Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!necntc!ames!oliveb!pyramid!uccba!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: SysV lp spooler a security hole Message-ID: <4516@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 16:39:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4516 Posted: Sun Sep 13 16:39:42 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Sep-87 06:21:45 EDT References: <313@pvab.UUCP> <1284@mhres.mh.nl> <1986@kitty.UUCP> <2546@okstate.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4078 comp.bugs.sys5:221 As quoted from <2546@okstate.UUCP> by vasoll@a.cs.okstate.edu (Mark Vasoll): +--------------- | I've been reading about the various uses that people have dreamed | up for System V lp and thought I would contribute my own... | | I wrote an interface module that will open an outbound async port | (ala UUCP style) and execute a script controlled conversation with | whatever might be there (e.g. a "smart" modem, a data switch, etc., | in our case a Case Communications DCX 850) to establish a connection | to the destination printer, print the job, then return to the script | for any needed "disconnect" conversation (reseting the modem or whatever). +--------------- I can see it now -- AT&T sendmail: "lp -psmtp letter" ;-) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> All opinions in this message are random characters produced when my cat jumped (-: up onto the keyboard of my PC. :-)