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2.3 Event Notification
The print system architecture provides methods for notifying end-users,
operators, and administrators when events occur in the printing system.
See Chapter 9 for more information.
2.4 Security
Security features can be used to control access to job data and management
functions. These features perform authentication and authorization checks
on every operation request to ensure that only authorized users obtain
access to Advanced Printing Software.
• Authentication is the process of validating that users are who they
claim to be.
• Authorization is the process of ensuring that an authenticated user has
the permission required to perform specific operations.
Three privilege levels for users identify the permissions allowed them:
• End user
• Operator
• Administrator
The privilege levels have an access order. An administrator can configure
objects plus perform all of the tasks that an operator can. An operator can
control printing plus perform all of the tasks that an end-user can.
The print system uses the access-control-list attribute to specify
the privilege level for each user. Authentication compares the user
identifier (UID) in the domain’s password file for the user who initiated
the operation request to the entries in the access-control-list
attribute. If the comparison is successful, authorization then checks the
access-control-list attribute for the user’s privilege level.
2.5 Configuration Tasks
This section provides an overview of the tasks you need to complete to
initially configure and start your print system. The tasks are listed in the
order that you should complete them and include the mandatory tasks as
well as the optional tasks you can perform.
Each task is described briefly and contains a reference to other sections in
this document that describe in detail how to perform the task.
1. Create and configure servers, spoolers, and the LPD Outbound Gateway
servers.
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