Yes, this is a bug. lpd tries to fork the printing process with the
username of the user who is printing.
I have submitted this bug to the RedHat bugs page.
I made some changes on the sources of the lpr package to be able to print.
If you want my solution, please mail me.
Lionel
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jacob A. Langford wrote:
> lpd is broken (i386 version at least).
>
> redhat 5.1 -> lpr 0.21.2 -> updated to lpr 0.31.1
> redhat 5.1 -> lpr 0.31.4
>
> Between 0.17 and 0.21 something got broken. The daemon
> acts as if every printcap entry had :rs=true:, thus only
> honoring remote print requests from valid users. Intentional
> (security paranoia) or accidental, I don't know, but it
> looks like a bug to me.
>
> I witnessed these problems on a default 5.1 installation,
> no updates.
>
> The message log shows "can't find user; can't fork".
>
> Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
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