uid of job

[Michael Sweet]

Tilo Lutz wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> Tilo Lutz wrote:
>>> Does anybody know how the owner of the
>>> job is transmitted to a cups server?
> 
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>> 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.
>  
> OK.
> Exmaple: I have one Linux client and und linux server with cupsd running.
> Only authenticated users are allowed to print.
> How does the client pass user information to the server?
> username is no problem but how is the password transmitted?

In 1.1.x, it isn't unless you hard code it in the device URI.

In 1.2.x, the authentication information is cached for the job
locally and re-sent to the remote server.

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