need job-originating-user in backend

[Michael Sweet]

Marcus Mundt wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I`m running CUPS to create PDFs. It works fine, but it would be nicer
> to get my backend saving the files in directories named after the
> user who send the print job to CUPS.
> 
> Windows 2000 clients are printing on CUPS and are sending the
> USERNAME (win2k-user!! - type "set" on commandline then
> "USERNAME=xxxxx" is shown among other things) via IPP. So far I got
> on my own.
> 
> CUPS lists the job-originating-user (the win2k-user, not the linux
> user) in the jobs section of the webinterface.
> 
> But how can I get the mentioned Windows 2000 "USERNAME" in a variable
> in my backend??? I only need to know this, please help.

Look at argv[2]; for more information, see "man filter backend"

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