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: <4517@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 16:46:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4517 Posted: Sun Sep 13 16:46:22 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Sep-87 06:21:58 EDT References: <313@pvab.UUCP> <193@sortac.UUCP> <7233@e.ms.uky.edu> <319@pvab.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 26 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4079 comp.bugs.sys5:222 As quoted from <319@pvab.UUCP> by robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson): +--------------- | Yeah, have it talk to Berkeley's 'lpd' daemon. Then it will be able to | spool things over the network to other hosts, communication servers | or printer servers too. +--------------- As if we needed an lpd. My print destination on ncoast is: job="$1" user="$2" title="$3" copies="$4" options="$5" shift; shift; shift; shift; shift exec uux - -r axcess!lp -t"$options" -n"$copies" -o"$options" "$@" Lpsched isn't the problem, it works fine. It's lp itself that is a bit stupid. -- 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. :-)