[cups.development] Handle authentication

[Michael Sweet]

On Feb 8, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
> ...
> I get 403...

Right.

> But if i type root with NO PASSWORD(my root user does have a pass),
> the auth fails but on next try I can cancel the job,
> this does not happens if I try to pause the printer..
> , this happens
> only when I try to cancel a job.
> What happens is that


Unless you specifically require authentication for the Cancel-Job operation (not the default) we just use the requesting-user-name that is passed in, which defaults to the cupsSetUser value.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer



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