Bug 89683 – LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 prohibits remote access to lpd

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Bug 89683 - LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 prohibits remote access to lpd

Summary:	LPRng-3.7.4-28.2 prohibits remote access to lpd

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	LPRng (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2003-04-25 19:22 EDT by Konrad J. Hambrick
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:53 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-04-29 10:22:58 EDT
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ps2pdf of RedHat Advisory Page for LPRNg (11.21 KB, application/octet-stream) 2003-04-27 17:12 EDT, Konrad J. Hambrick	no flags	Details
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Description Konrad J. Hambrick 2003-04-25 19:22:11 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 !

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-04-27 16:54:27 EDT

This is explained in the advisory.

Comment 2 Konrad J. Hambrick 2003-04-27 17:12:33 EDT

Created attachment 91321 [details]
ps2pdf of RedHat Advisory Page for LPRNg

this is a .pdf of the RedHat Advisory Page.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2003-04-28 03:56:02 EDT

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.

Comment 4 Konrad J. Hambrick 2003-04-28 09:50:03 EDT

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

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2003-04-29 10:22:58 EDT

It turns out to be extremely awkward to change this retrospectively; sorry. 
We'll pay closer attention in future.

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