Changeset 1152 for pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample

Timestamp:

10/08/03 23:41:38 (21 years ago)

Author:

jalet

Message:

External policies for printers works !
We can now auto-add users on first print, and do other useful things if needed.

Files:

• pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample (modified) (2 diffs)

pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample

@@ -300 +300 @@
 
 # Default policy for inexistant users (e.g. root)
-# either allow or deny
+# either allow or deny or external(some command here)
 # This value can be set either globally or per printer or both.
 # If both are defined, the printer option has priority.
@@ -309 +309 @@
 #     charged to the next person who prints on the same printer.
 # There's no policy wrt inexistant groups, they are ignored.
+#
+# external policy can be used to launch any external command of your choice,
+# for example to automatically add the user to the quota storage 
+# if he is unknown. Example :
+# 
+#       policy: external(/usr/bin/edpykota --add --printer %(printer)s --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 60 %(user)s) 
+#
+#       NB : '%(user)s' and '%(printer)s' will be automatically replaced 
+#            by the user and printer names. 
+#
+# Of course you can launch any command of your choice with this, e.g. :
+#
+#       policy: external(/usr/local/bin/myadminscript.sh %(user)s)
+#
 policy: deny