The -U option in lp and lpr

[Michael Sweet]

Opher Shachar wrote:
> Hello all,
> CUPS 1.2.x adds a -U username option to lp and lpr. This allows any user on the local machine to submit a job as another user without authentication (by default). To dissallow this I added
>     AuthType Basic
>     Require valid-user
> under <Location /printers/MyPriner>. Now while user 'root' can submit jobs with lp without being required to enter a password, all other users submiting a job as themselfs (not using -U) are required for their password.
> I'd like to set-up things such that users on the local machine can send jobs as themselfs - using lp - without being required for a password and, in all other cases be asked to autheticate.

That isn't possible in 1.2; with 1.3, you will be able to use Kerberos
for that...

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