Technical data

Glossary
The glossary includes definitions of terms used in the Advanced Printing
Software documentation.
Access Control List (ACL)
A list of entities (such as users, operators, administrators, and servers) used
to determine whether a certain entity has authorization to perform some
operation or function.
administrator
A class of user that is enforced by security. An administrator sets policy
and can create, modify, and delete persistent print system objects such as
printers and servers. See also operator and user.
attribute
Characteristics of an object relating to its identity, physical makeup, or
status. Every print system object contains a collection of attributes that
provide information about that object. See also object.
authentication
The process of identifying and verifying the user making a request by
checking and validating the user’s credentials.
authorization
The process whereby an access policy determines whether an authenticated
entity can perform a particular operation.
logical printer
A named object of class printer that is used to group one or more physical
printer objects for load balancing and for specifying alternative default
attributes to those specified by the physical printer object.
LPD Client
The client that communicates by LPD protocol.
LPD protocol
Line printer daemon protocol for print systems used by the Berkeley versions
of the UNIX operating system. It is described in RFC 1179.
name service
A set of capabilities provided throughout a network environment by
servers that allow client applications access to names of user-defined and
system-defined objects.
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