uid of job

[Michael Sweet]

Tilo Lutz wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Does anybody know how the owner of the
> job is transmitted to a cups server?

Just as with any IPP server, via the requesting-user-name attribute,
which becomes the job-originating-user-name attribute in the job
object.  If authentication is involved, the authenticated user name
takes precedence over the one passed in the attribute.

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