pkturnkey

The pkturnkey command line tool almost transforms PyKota into a turn-key solution by importing datas from the operating system into PyKota's DataBase?.

However for security reasons, pkturnkey only simulate its actions, unless you really ask this command to proceed, by using its --force command line switch.

Usually, you'll want to execute pkturnkey only once after having installed PyKota, but launching it several times is entirely safe and may be needed to import more datas, like newly installed printers, for example.

Functionnalities :

• Import datas to initialize your PyKota database :
  • Printers are extracted from CUPS' configuration. The subset of printers to import can be restricted by passing printers' names as non-option arguments on the command line.
  • Users are extracted from the system in a way similar to that of the getent command, this means that the settings of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file are honored. Users are imported into PyKota's DataBase? if the --dousers (or -d) command line switch is used. The subset of users to import can be restricted with the --uidmin (or -u) and --uidmax (or -U) command line switches.
  • Groups are extracted from the system in a way similar to that of the getent command, this means that the settings of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file are honored. Groups are imported into PyKota's DataBase? if the --dogroups (or -D) command line switch is used. The subset of groups to import can be restricted with the --gidmin (or -g) and --gidmax (or -G) command line switches.
• Tell you which printers are not yet managed by PyKota -- you have to modify CUPS' printers.conf file for these, by prepending the cupspykota:// string in front of each DeviceURI. Then you have to restart CUPS for the change to be taken into account.
• Give you the best accounting method for your printers, and show you the accounter directives to copy and paste into pykota.conf.
• Additionnal functionnalities might be added in the future.