On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > ... > > And this is the big difference between lpd and LPRng. With LPRng you > > can specify who can use what of those printers even if all the > > originators are on the same box. I think that lpd just lets you specify > > what boxes can make print requests. > > > Well, you can use rg in /etc/printcap. >
IIRC, LRNng also lets you make it easy so that, for example, if you have 1000 users in 100 work groups, with 100 work group printers, each user can just print and their work will go to their own work-group printer, or, if it is down, perhaps to a backup printer in the work group next-door. Note that I am _not_ arguing that LPRng is better than lpd. They have different paradigms, and it would appear that their maintenance differs significantly (in that LPRng hasn't been updated in a while). The target market for LPRng seems to have been taken over by CUPS. I don't know, at the present time, which of LPRng or CUPS is more secure. Given that lpd comes in the base of OpenBSD, I would feel comfortable in assuming that it is the most secure. Doug.
