controlling printing access on an AppleShare network

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From: Mike Engber
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 13:59

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We want to have a network of Mac+'s hooked up to laserwriter (via
AppleShare), but we want to limit access to the laserwriter. Ideally
we'd like to keep some sort of paper quota on each user (each user has
an id and a password), but we'd might settle for a single password for
the laserwriter.

I know this has been previously discussed, but I wasn't paying
attention (seemed like a silly problem at the time) Would someone
please e-mail me a summary. New ideas are welcome too.

If no such software exists, how hard would it be to write a program that
intercepts the call the the printer driver and prompts the user for a
password. I'd be willing to take a hack at it using LSP or LSC.

Any suggestions, welcome. Please reply via e-mail and I'll post a summary

-ME

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From: engber@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: controlling printing access on an AppleShare network
Summary: any ideas?, how hard to write my own code
Keywords: security, password protection
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Date: 27 Apr 89 13:59:43 GMT
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