| Summary: | lpd denies service | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mike |
| Component: | lpr | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | jefft |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-02-17 17:08:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
i have verified this to be true. fixed in lpr-0.34-1 Glad to see this has been fixed, however, I can't find the update for lpr-0.34-1. Where can I download this fix? Thanks. |
I have printcap entries setup (via the print tool) on my RH5.2 machine for various printers. I have allowed other machines (via /etc/hosts.lpd) to print to this machine. There is no 'rs' entry in the printcap file. If the external user printing to the print spool (RH5.2) machine does not have an account on it, the print job fails because (according to the log in 'messages') it cannot fork - user unknown. This behavior is incorrect, unless there is an RS entry in the printcap for the printer. The problem is a bug in the lpd code, in printjob.c. There are two tests of the 'RS' variable where there is a missing 'else' branch to copy a valid username into the 'logname' variable. In both cases, the code should look like: if( RS ) { do some stuff... } else strcpy( logname, "lp" );