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34 The printer system maintains protected spooling areas so that
35 users cannot circumvent printer accounting or
36 remove files other than their own.
37 The strategy used to maintain protected
38 spooling areas is as follows:
40 The spooling area is writable only by a \fIdaemon\fP user
41 and \fIdaemon\fP group.
43 The \fIlpr\fP program runs set-user-id to \fIroot\fP and
44 set-group-id to group \fIdaemon\fP. The \fIroot\fP access permits
45 reading any file required. Accessibility is verified
46 with an \fIaccess\fP\|(2) call. The group ID
47 is used in setting up proper ownership of files
48 in the spooling area for \fIlprm\fP.
50 Control files in a spooling area are made with \fIdaemon\fP
51 ownership and group ownership \fIdaemon\fP. Their mode is 0660.
52 This insures control files are not modified by a user
53 and that no user can remove files except through \fIlprm\fP.
55 The spooling programs,
56 \fIlpd\fP, \fIlpq\fP, and \fIlprm\fP run set-user-id to \fIroot\fP
57 and set-group-id to group \fIdaemon\fP to access spool files and printers.
59 The printer server, \fIlpd\fP,
60 uses the same verification procedures as \fIrshd\fP\|(8C)
61 in authenticating remote clients. The host on which a client
62 resides must be present in the file /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd and
63 the request message must come from a reserved port number.
65 In practice, none of \fIlpd\fP, \fIlpq\fP, or
66 \fIlprm\fP would have to run as user \fIroot\fP if remote
67 spooling were not supported. In previous incarnations of
68 the printer system \fIlpd\fP ran set-user-id to \fIdaemon\fP,
69 set-group-id to group \fIspooling\fP, and \fIlpq\fP and \fIlprm\fP ran
70 set-group-id to group \fIspooling\fP.