topic Re: user for Printer management in Operating System - HP-UX

user for Printer management

terry123 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:22:59 GMT

hi All,

may i know are there any way to create a User, which only can manage printer related job, ie, add printer, cancel print queue?

thx in advance.

b.r.
terrytse

Re: user for Printer management

Pete Randall — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:27:53 GMT

Restricted SAM (set up through "sam -r") would probably be the way to go.

Pete

Re: user for Printer management

terry123 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:34:07 GMT

thx Pete,

let me try that first.

Re: user for Printer management

Basheer_2 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:58:55 GMT

Also, if you have sudo installed,, you can create the user for only this purpose.

Re: user for Printer management

terry123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:07:50 GMT

hi Pete,

i have tried the "sam -r", it works for me.

by the way, may i know are there any way to further limit the user, ie, when the user login, SAM will auto start? when the user exit SAM, the user will be log off the system?

thx so much.

terrytse

Re: user for Printer management

Dennis Handly — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:16:56 GMT

>when the user login, SAM will auto start? when the user exit SAM, the user will be log off

I suppose you could change the user's shell to /usr/sbin/sam. But this may not have the right DISPLAY variable set?

If so, you could replace the user's shell by a wrapper that does that then invokes SAM.

Re: user for Printer management

terry123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:01:09 GMT

thx All,

also is "sam -r" can restrict printer access? ie. user can only view some printers but not all.

thx again.

terrytse