Using smb backend without clear text passwords

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Fri Feb 25 23:09:29 PST 2005


Hi,

> I noticed that cups 'hides' the password if the URL is in the format i
> refered before, but if you use some intermediate backend (for instance: > pykota), the password is visible again :(
>
> Question 1: Is there any way of storing the password, not in
> clear-text/conf file, but some other database (i think this would be
> very usefull, something like cups --smb-password foo --printer hp3500)?

Please could you contact me privately with more details on this if you think this could be a bug in PyKota ?

Thx in advance

Jerome Alet




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