[cups.general] Anonymous User Job Control

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Nov 4 05:01:40 PST 2005


Hello,

On Nov 4 07:52 Michael Sweet wrote (shortened):
> Keep in mind that the default CUPS configuration will map an
> unauthenticated root user to "remroot" when you use the "-h" option...

Thanks to mention it!

Therefore for a job on a remote CUPS server one must use
the actual owner of the job on the remote server:
cancel -h remote-server-name -u job-owner-on-remote-server \
 job-id-on-remote-server


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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