.NH 1 Access control .PP The printer system maintains protected spooling areas so that users cannot circumvent printer accounting or remove files other than their own. The strategy used to maintain protected spooling areas is as follows: .IP \(bu 3 The spooling area is writable only by a \fIdaemon\fP user and \fIspooling\fP group. .IP \(bu 3 The \fIlpr\fP program runs setuid \fIroot\fP and setgid \fIspooling\fP. The \fIroot\fP access is used to read any file required, verifying accessibility with an \fIaccess\fP\|(2) call. The group ID is used in setting up proper ownership of files in the spooling area for \fIlprm\fP. .IP \(bu 3 Control files in a spooling area are made with \fIdaemon\fP ownership and group ownership \fIspooling\fP. Their mode is 0660. This insures control files are not modified by a user and that no user can remove files except through \fIlprm\fP. .IP \(bu 3 The spooling programs, \fIlpd\fP, \fIlpq\fP, and \fIlprm\fP run setuid \fIroot\fP and setgid \fIspooling\fP to access spool files and printers. .IP \(bu 3 The printer server, \fIlpd\fP, uses the same verification procedures as \fIrshd\fP\|(8C) in authenticating remote clients. The host on which a client resides must be present in the file /etc/hosts.equiv, used to create clusters of machines under a single administration. .PP In practice, none of \fIlpd\fP, \fIlpq\fP, or \fIlprm\fP would have to run as user \fIroot\fP if remote spooling were not supported. In previous incarnations of the printer system \fIlpd\fP ran setuid \fIdaemon\fP, setgid \fIspooling\fP, and \fIlpq\fP and \fIlprm\fP ran setgid \fIspooling\fP.