Adding printers securely

[Michael Sweet]

Tim Jacobs wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have installed CUPS, and it works very good. There is one puzzling 
> issue that I am not able to resolve however:
> 
> I can connect through an insecure connection and add printers (i.e. 
> through http://hostname:631/ ). This works perfect. I can connect 
> through a secure connection and add printers (i.e. through 
> https://hostname , using port 443). This also works perfect.
> 
> However, both printers seem to be seperated from eachother: people 
> connecting insecurely cannot see printers that have been added through 
> the secure connection, and people connecting securely cannot see the 
> printers added insecurely.
> 
> Is there some way around this ? I actually need (insecure) printing to 
> 127.0.0.1:631, while users need to be able to access their jobs securely 
> at https://hostname/jobs. I use CUPS 1.1.20, compiled from source (using 
> Gentoo Linux).

This is a known issue that has been corrected in 1.1.21 (both of the
rc's so far)

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