Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

To Enable Some Users to Print Without Banners and Trailer Pages


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If the Always Print Banner check box on the Printer Administrator dialog is checked, banner and trailer pages always print, even if the user has the solaris.print.nobanner authorization and uses the -o nobanner option to lp.


  1. Bring up the Printer Administrator on the print server.

    See "To Launch the Printer Administrator Action", if needed.

  2. Make sure that the Always Print Banner check box is not checked.

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  3. Exit the Printer Administrator.

  4. Make sure that the solaris.print.nobanner authorization is in one of the profiles assigned to each user or role that is allowed to print without banner and trailer pages.

    See "To Assign Printing-Related Authorization(s) to an Account", if needed.

  5. Instruct the user or role to submit jobs using the lp command with the option -o nobanner.


    trustworthy% lp -o nobanner staff.mtg.notes