| 1 | # $Id$ |
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| 3 | PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng |
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| 5 | (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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| 6 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 7 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 8 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 9 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 12 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 13 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 14 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 17 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 18 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | ==================================================================== |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | This directory contains CGI scripts which you may find useful to |
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| 23 | put on a web server along with PyKota command line tools. |
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| 25 | Be sure to restrict access to these CGI scripts as necessary. |
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| 27 | If you protect access to printquota.cgi or dumpykota.cgi with |
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| 28 | username+password authentication, the REMOTE_USER CGI environment variable |
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| 29 | is honored, so an user can only see his own datas, but not |
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| 30 | other users' datas. However, the special REMOTE_USER value 'root' |
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| 31 | is allowed an unrestricted access. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | If no username+password authentication takes place, then access |
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| 34 | is completely unrestricted. |
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| 36 | If you don't protect access to pykotme.cgi with username+password |
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| 37 | authentication, then only the job's size will be displayed |
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| 38 | to you. This is due to the cost of a print job on a particular printer |
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| 39 | depending on the user because of the overcharging factor's value. |
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| 40 | So if you want pykotme.cgi to produce complete web quotes, you must |
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| 41 | ensure that the user logs in from his web browser whenever he uses |
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| 42 | this CGI script. |
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| 44 | You must ensure that the user your web server runs as can read |
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| 45 | PyKota's pykota.conf configuration file. No read access to |
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| 46 | PyKota's pykotadmin.conf configuration file is necessary though. |
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| 48 | The web server doesn't need to be a print server nor a PyKota |
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| 49 | Storage Backend server, but it must contain a correctly configured |
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| 50 | PyKota installation. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | ==================================================================== |
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