HOSTS.LPD(5)

🖨️ hosts.lpd(5) — trusted hosts that may use local print services 🖨️

okay so bestie, welcome to the hosts.lpd(5) page from the File Formats Manual — it's literally the VIP list for your local printer 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

hosts.lpd — trusted hosts that may use local print services 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The hosts.lpd file contains a list of hostnames or IP addresses that are allowed to use your local print services. List every hostname or IP address on a line itself. 🖨️💖

If you want to allow access for any and all host, you can usually use the NIS netgroups feature to do this by adding a line with a single + character. 👑

no cap: that's a line with a single + character, bestie — just the one character, living its main character life 💅

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/hosts.lpd — The hosts.lpd file resides in /etc. 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• printcap(5)
• lpd(8)

xoxo, this iconic little page is from Debian and it's dated June 1, 1996 — periodt 💖✨🎀