[cups.general] cups and ldap

[Michael Sweet]

Raissa Dantas Freire de Medeiros wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to integrate CUPS and OpenLdap, ie, is it possible to
> configure CUPS to get its information from an LDAP server?
> 
> I am trying to picture the following scenario: an user log in your
> machine (with LDAP authentication) and he has CUPS automatically
> configured according to his printers (the printers are stored on
> OpenLDAP).

No, CUPS doesn't support LDAP this way, and likely never will.

CUPS 1.2 will add LDAP printer registrations for shared printers.
That will allow you to locate printers via LDAP.

However, we have no plans of supporting per-user printers via LDAP
or any other scheme.

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