printing via CUPS from NIS client with no shell

[Eric Dané]

Hi everybody,

I try to print from client  workstations (with NIS identification and 
cupsys-client  1.1.14-5 on KDE3.1.4/DebianWoody) via a CUPS server (running 
cupsys 1.1.14-5 on Debian (Woody), this server is also the NIS server)
In order to improve security, regular user do not have a shell on the server 
(=>"/bin/false" in /etc/passwd) but then only users with a shell (eg 
/bin/bash in /etc/passwd) can achieve the printing process without problem; 
for those with no shell, the following error message appears:

"cupsdoprint -P 'printer' -J '' -H 'server.domain.net:631' -U 'user' -o ' 
copies=1 orientation-requested=3' '/tmp/kde-test/konquerorNaI0Eb.ps'
execution stopped with the message"

the most desperating is that /var/log/cups/error_log doesn't read anything 
either on the server nor clients

thanks for helping

-- 
Eric Dané <eric.dane at auf.org>
Administrateur systèmes & réseaux
Campus numérique francophone de Niamey
www.refer.ne - BP 13455 Niamey, NIGER

Agence universitaire de la francophonie <www.auf.org>
Programme "TIC & appropriation des savoirs"