Username in printers.conf?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Sat Nov 26 08:58:30 PST 2005


didi at ling.uni-graz.at wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with printing to a netware queue from cups. I have to supply a username of the form ".username.CONTAINER.CONTAINER" to be able to print to the netware ipp-system.
> 
> When I issue
> 
> lpr -P printer -U .username.CONTAINER.CONTAINER somefile
> 
> everything works fine.
> 
> So, my question is: Can I define a special username for a printer somewhere in printers.conf or somewhere else?
> 
> Thanks in advance and greetings
> Didi

The only thing that comes to my mind is to write a wrapper for the backend you use which modifies
the requesting-user attribute accordingly.

Helge

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