[cups.general] cups server using IPP: access denied whendeletingjobs

[Michael Sweet]

Cyrill Helg wrote:
> Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 18:36 schrieb Michael Sweet:
>> Cyrill Helg wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2006 02:28 schrieb Gene Heskett:
>>>> Its probably something in the Location Admin...  Some snips from
>>>> my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>>>>
>>>> <Location />
>>>> Order Deny,Allow
>>>> Deny From All
>>>> Allow From @LOCAL
>>>> </Location>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> <Location /admin>
>>>> AuthType Basic
>>>> AuthClass System
>>>> Order Deny,Allow
>>>> Deny From All
>>>> Allow From @LOCAL
>>>> </Location>
>>>>
>>>> YMMV of course.
>>> Hmm this looks more like a workaround than a real solution. Because like
>>> this everyone can delete any job. I think that this problem is a BUG in
>>> cups.
>> No, only an administrator or the owner of a job can cancel it in
>> CUPS 1.1.x.
>>
>> The "correct" solution in 1.1.x is to add the following:
>>
>>      <Location /jobs>
>>      <Limit GET>
>>      Order allow,deny
>>      Allow @LOCAL
>>      AuthType Basic
>>      Require valid-user
>>      </Limit>
>>      </Location>
> 
> 
> Ok I have this in my jobs section and that in /
> 
> <Location />
> Encryption Never
> AuthType Basic
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 192.168.1.*
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> 
> </Location>
> 
> 
> But the problem is still here :(.

Are you asked for a username and password?

What do the error_log and access_log files show?

> What are the options that I need?
> 
>> CUPS 1.2 automatically asks for authentication when you cancel a
>> job from the web interface; in addition, you can configure CUPS to
>> allow any user to cancel a job, if you like (the default is the same
>> as CUPS 1.1.x and earlier, as I described above...)
> 
> Is cups 1.2 available for debian? Or still in development?

I think cupsys packages based on the CUPS 1.2 snapshots are coming
soon, but I don't know for sure when or where, sorry...

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