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From: perl@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS Printing - User name variations
Message-ID: <705@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 89 16:23:17 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.004957.1105@sjuphil.uucp>
Reply-To: perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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In article <1989Dec7.004957.1105@sjuphil.uucp> lyle@sjuphil.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle) writes:
>What I would like to know is how does pc-nfs send the file to the
>system so that sometimes it is owned by root and other times it is
>owned by the user logged in from the PC level????  Is it random?
 
Simple: If the user does not enter the right password (or no
password) when "logging-in" to PC-NFS, AND they either "Abort" or
"Ignore" PC-NFS's offer to try again, they are assigned the user
ID "nobody".  UNIX UID number "-2".

For some reason (perhaps Geoff Arnold will enlighten), the host
prints the job as root instead of "nobody."  However, in either
case you won't have useful accounting information. 

There may be a way to have your SUN host refuse print services to
users who do not login properly, Geoff?

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