SUMMARY: lpadmin restricting access to printers

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OOOOPPPS!!!!

        I realized how silly my question was after I got the first answer. The
problem is not the lpadmin command, but that I was running
it on csh and this shell gives a special meaning to ! (command history
recall).
        The solution was to escape it, preceding it with a \
or run it from another shell (ksh, or sh).

        Thanks to all this who kindly answered:

        Gavin L. Hemphill
        Peter Allan
        Moshe Meirzadeh
        Jens Fischer
        Gavin Brennan
        Wilter Borba
        Shriman Gurung
        Claude Charest
        Michal Dombrowsk
        Peter Asboeck
        Matthew Stier
        Igor Kolker
        Kevin M. Woods
        Bob Cronin
        Sandra Stefani
        Kamal Kantawala
        Burt Heymanson
        Myk O'Leary
        John D. Groenveld
        Glenn Satchell
        

ORIGINAL QUESTION:
>
> I want to restrict access to certain printers from certain
> systems. According to the manual, and to the lpadmin man page, I should
> be able to do: lpadmin -p printername -u allow: list
> where list is a list of system-users allowed to use the printer.
>
> According to the manual pages, list can be a list of:
> > login-ID a user on any system
> > system-name!login-ID
> > a user on system system-name
> > system-name!all
> > all users on system system-name
> > all!login-ID a user on all systems
> > all all users on all systems
> >
>
> When I try to issue the command:
> lpadmin -p iprinter -u allow:itserver!all
> I get the following error
> all: Event not found
>
> If I try to issue the command:
> lpadmin -p itprinter -u allow:all!mariel
> I get the following error
> mariel: event not found
>
> If I issue the command with a user name, for example:
> lpadmin -p itprinter -u allow:mariel
> it works fine.
> lpadmin -p iprinter -u allow:all
> also works fine.
>
> The problem seems to happen when there is a ! involved. But the
> manual says that's the way to handle. Maybe this is a bug solved in a
> patch, or maybe I am doing something wrong.

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 Mariel Feder
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 Meralco Electric Company
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