[cups.general] Re: How to authenticate from printing software?
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Fri Aug 27 11:31:19 PDT 2004
Colin Walters wrote:
> ...
>>however in the future
>>it will be possible for upstream servers to notify the job
>>originator when authentication is required.
>
>
> So in other words, it doesn't work with CUPS now, so I don't see how "it
> is already used in a LOT of corporate and government environments".
The multi-level authentication is already in place. They use hardcoded
user accounts to get things through. They don't want to keep doing
this but instead want per-user authentication all the way to the final
server. Clearly multi-level authentication is being used, just not at
a user level (yet).
>>>I can imagine, it must have been a proprietary protocol on top of SMTP.
>>
>>Not really, it basically looked like a moderation system - all outgoing
>>email had to be authenticated first with the local SMTP server, the
>>mail was sent and held on the final server, and then we approved it
>>(with more username/password stuff) via a UI at the final server.
>
>
> Right...not really SMTP anymore :)
and your point is? The mail is still transferred via SMTP, they just
wrapped it to get the multi-level authentication in place. The need
is there, I never said the software/protocol was there, yet...
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