Enable Password in Web Interface

[Michael Sweet]

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...

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