Enable Password in Web Interface

Human anonymous at easysw.com
Sat Sep 11 04:50:46 PDT 2004


Michael Sweet wrote:
> Human wrote:
> > Human wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Modifying my cupds.conf file, I have somehow disabled the password protection for the CUPS web interface. How do I turn it back on?
> >>
> >>(None of this probably matters, but my CUPS 1.2.x was done from source on SuSE 9.0, Linux kernel version 2.4.21-243-default, KDE 3.1. I have CUPS running as a user called lp.)
> >
> >
> > A clarification: I know about <Limit GET> (which I _think_ is the solution), but not how to use it. An excerpt from my cupsd.conf:
> >
> > <Location /admin>
> >
> > <Limit GET>
> >
> > AuthType Digest
> > AuthClass Group
> > AuthGroupName sys
> >
> > ## Restrict access to local domain
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > Deny From All
> > Allow From 127.0.0.1
> >
> > </Limit>
> >
> > </Location>
>
> You don't want to use Limit in this case, since it will disable
> authentication for POSTs as well...

Bad idea, then. Still, how do I do it?




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