[cups.general] print jobs with different user name

Matt Hull mhull1 at uic.edu
Thu Jul 6 14:34:57 PDT 2006


On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

> Matt Hull <mhull1 at uic.edu> wrote (Thursday 06 July 2006 19:54):
>
> > how how does cups get the user name to send with a print job?
>
> CUPS 1.2 has "lp" and "lpr" client programs that can take
>
>   "-U username"
>
> commandline parameter to send a job as a different user.
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt

that would work.  i was thinking that it might be easier if a user name
could be set somewhere else for the printer, or user such as cups.conf

matt





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