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.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 \fIroot\fP and
and the \fIdaemon\fP group.
.IP \(bu 3
The \fIlpr\fP and \fIlprm\fP programs run set-user-id to user \fIdaemon\fP and
set-group-id to group \fIdaemon\fP.
.IP \(bu 3
The \fIlpc\fP and \fIlpq\fP programs run set-group-id to group \fIdaemon\fP
to access spool files.
.IP \(bu 3
Control and data files in a spooling area are made with \fIdaemon\fP
ownership and group ownership \fIdaemon\fP.  Their mode is 0660.
This ensures control files are not modified by a user
and that no user can remove files except through \fIlprm\fP.
.IP \(bu 3
The printer server, \fIlpd\fP, runs as \fIroot\fP but spends most
of its time with the effective user-id set to \fIdaemon\fP and the
effective group-id set to \fIdaemon\fP.  As a result, spool files
it creates belong to user and group \fIdaemon\fP.  \fILpd\fP uses
the same verification procedures as \fIrshd\fP\|(8) in authenticating
remote clients.  The host on which a client resides must be present
in the file /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd and the request
message must come from a reserved port number.