How to use CupsSetUser();

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Dec 5 06:31:55 PST 2006


Andreas Nitsche wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I want to have a standard user for my cups server. Every printing job will be called with this user.
> 
> I think I need this CupsSetUser() function, but don't know how and when to call it.
> 
> My current user should be replaced with any other definable user.

You mean you want every job to be tagged as coming from a specific
username?

That's a function of the requesting-user-name attribute, which is
indirectly set using cupsSetUser() in the CUPS API.  The command-line
programs (lp, lpstat, etc.) have a -U option for setting this
username as well.

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