Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89683
LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 prohibits remote access to lpd
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31 i686) Description of problem: LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 /etc/lpd.perms prevents remote printer access by default. This is different behaviour from the previous version. Please give the users a heads up ! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 2. Try to print from remote client 3. Remote Printing is disallowed by default by lpd Actual Results: print jobs queue on remote clients Expected Results: print jobs transferred to remote server and committed to paper Additional info: please add a heads up to your update info page !
This is explained in the advisory.
Created attachment 91321 [details] ps2pdf of RedHat Advisory Page for LPRNg this is a .pdf of the RedHat Advisory Page.
That advisory ought to reference https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-089.html, where this behaviour intentionally changed. Sorry, didn't realise it didn't.
twaugh -- Thanks for the url. Now I need to find out how I missed the previous update ... ( LPRng-3.7.4-28.1.i386.rpm ) -- kjh
It turns out to be extremely awkward to change this retrospectively; sorry. We'll pay closer attention in future.