start/stop authorization for a single printer

[Patrice Guay]

>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm using cups v.1.1.22 on RHEL4. I would like to allow a user to start/stop a specific printer without giving him the right to delete or modify the printer.
>>
>>I've looked at /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and found the following directive which looks like the starting point for what I want to achieve.
>>
>><Location /admin>
>>[...]
>></Location>
>>
>>
> The following should work:
>
> <Location /printers/name_of_the_printer?op=foo-printer>
> ....
> </Location>
>
> where foo is one of start or stop.
>
> Helge
>

I added the following to allow simple users the right to stop the printer:

<Location /admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=name_of_printer>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass User
</Location>

When CUPS prompts for a username/password, giving credentials of a normal user is accepted but I receive a web page with the following message: "Error: client-error-not-authorized"

I examined the access_log from CUPS:

localhost - patrice [XXX] "GET /admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=name_of_printer HTTP/1.1" 200 0
localhost - - [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0
localhost - patrice [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0
localhost - patrice [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0
[...]
localhost - patrice [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0
localhost - patrice [XXX] "GET /admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=name_of_printer HTTP/1.1" 200 1541

When I input root credentials, access_log gives:

localhost - root [XXX] "GET /admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=name_of_printer HTTP/1.1" 200 0
localhost - - [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 0
localhost - root [XXX] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 122
localhost - root [XXX] "GET /admin/?op=stop-printer&printer_name=name_of_printer HTTP/1.1" 200 1544

The "POST /admin/" command is clearly responsible for the "Error: client-error-not-authorized" error message.

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Patrice Guay