HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing DCE Security for HPDPS
Creating Additional Groups
Creating Additional Groups
This section gives examples of different groups you can create to
supplement the two default groups, pd_admin and pd_operator. This
section discusses two examples:
• The printer operator group
• The group for users of restricted printers
You also can create additional groups for system operators and
administrators.
Planning a Printer Operator Group
A printer operator is a person who is responsible for supporting and
maintaining printer devices. This entails such tasks as putting new
toner in the printers, loading various media into the printers, and
making the printers available for large and small jobs at different times
of the day.
The permissions needs of a printer operator who manages physical
printers are far less than those that the default pd_operator group has.
Members of the pd_operator group have read and write permission for
all HPDPS objects in your distributed print environment. This means
that they can modify all the HPDPS objects. A printer operator group
only needs read and write permission for the physical printers under
the care of the group.
When you plan printer operator groups, first decide for which printers
each different group needs read and write permission. For example,
suppose that your organization has two printer rooms, and each room
has a number of different printer devices, but as yet, none of those
printer devices are managed by HPDPS. The easiest way to set up your
permissions is to have all the printer devices in each room managed by
physical printers in a dedicated set of supervisors. This creates a
correspondence between the physical organization of the hardware and
the logical organization of the hardware management.
There are other ways to group physical printers together for DCE
security management purposes. For example, you might want to group
together all of the desktop printers used by a particular user group.
Following is a set of overall guidelines you can follow to create physical