If you're using Gentoo and don't mind dealing with Portage overlays, you can download a Gentoo ebuild and throw it in your overlay, probably under net-print. Pitt users will want to set the pitt USE flag so that the ebuild will install a Pitt printer–setup script you can run to add all the campus printers easily. The ebuild will pull in CUPS and Expect if necessary. Just emerge sshlpd and follow the post‐install instructions for information about how to add the printers.

• sshlpd-1.ebuild

I was surprised to hear from someone outside of the university who found a use for sshlpd. The code is designed to be fairly general, so if you need LPD over SSH, you may find the script useful. There are, however, a couple of changes that need to be made.

• The location of lpr on the remote computer is hard‐coded. You must edit $REMOTE_LPR in the sshlpd script to point to the sshlpd executable. I should find a better way of doing this, but nothing immediately came to mind, so you'll need to edit the Perl script for now.
• The company I heard from uses SSH key‐based authentication, which allows SSH connections to be securely created without requiring the user to enter a password at each connection. (Ideally the Pitt version would function this way, but it appears that the university has turned off key‐based authentication on the server.) In any case, key‐based authentication makes Expect, /etc/sshpassword, and a little bit of Perl code unnecessary. If you have key‐based authentication set up and want to use sshlpd, then you will want to install Stephen DeGabriele's patch to remove Expect password‐handling.