[cups.general] permission to cancel jobs via web interface

Mohammed Riyaz p_mdriyaz at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 13 21:17:44 PST 2005


Hi,
Did you try 

<Location /jobs>
Authclass Basic
Authtype System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From <your ip>
</Location>

-Mohammed Riyaz P.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:48:23 +0000, "Rodrigo Ventura"
<yoda at isr.ist.utl.pt> said:
> 
> I've seen this question often asked, but seldom answered. I can remove
> jobs either login in as root and running lprm, or remotely from the
> same user, also using lprm. However, regardeless of the administration
> permission, I can't remove jobs via teh web interface: the error is
> the usual "client-error-forbidden".
> 
> How to solve this, and allow some user (any user?) to cancel jobs via
> the web interface?
> 
> Adding Auth configs to the <Location /jobs> does not help either.
> 
> The cups version I'm using is cups-1.1.20-108.13 that comes shipped
> with SuSE 9.1.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rodrigo Ventura





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