[cups.general] Per User configuration

marc at arctic.net marc at arctic.net
Fri Feb 18 10:08:10 PST 2005


I would like to be able to have an individualized per user
CUPS configuration file so that I can limit what printers are
accessible to specific users.

I tried to limit printers via authentication in <Location
/printer/name/> and the GUI (Mac OS X) on Macs provides no
response and the command line does not seem to prompt either.
I set AuthType to Basic and AuthClass to System simply to get
the system to prompt.  

I also tried to just disable certain printers so that only
admins could enable certain printers.  The GUI provided no
indication that a printer was disabled.  I did notice that the
remote print server will prompt for password on the print
server to cancel jobs from a local host,  but when I tried to
enable a printer the OS reponded that there was a bash shell
error. 





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