[cups.general] When printing a Test Page from cups 1.1.X serverto1.2.1 server I keep getting "guest" as user identification (extranote)

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Jun 16 12:53:49 PDT 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:

> wtautz wrote:
>
>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>
>>> wtautz wrote:
>>>
>>>> wtautz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically the client poll's the 1.2.1 server (compiled from
>>>>> source on
>>>>> www.cups.org) and the
>>>>> client is Ubuntu/Breezy (version 1.1.23-10ubuntu4). It seem that the
>>>>> url
>>>>> on the client
>>>>> that indicates print test page points to http:{1.2.1-server}:631
>>>>> (i.e,
>>>>> it is not https even though
>>>>> that's available on the server). Is this expected behaviour? Can I
>>>>> force
>>>>> the http://servername
>>>>> connection to be https? (I had assumed that it was already since I
>>>>> compiled openssl into it) but
>>>>> sniffit shows it  isn't which is to be expected since it's http,
>>>>> but....
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>> I should have augmented this by saying that if I connect to
>>>> the remote printer from the client http://localhost:631 that the
>>>> user is "guest" whereas if I connect via https to print the
>>>> test page the user is not "guest" but me as it should be.
>>>> Is this to be expected?
>>>
>>>
>>> The browser cached your credentials...
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hmm. I tried the shift key and reloaded, shows up as guest user. Command
>> line tools work fine.  Cleared my cache and restarted browser. Still get
>> guest user when printing
>> Test Page via both https and http. Printing an arbitrary webpage works
>> as me. So I guess
>> there is no real problem but it is curious. Btw, I'm using firefox on
>> Ubuntu/breezy.
>
>
> Right, when you cleared your cache or did the shift-reload thing, you
> got guest (not authenticated), as expected...
>
Hi,
So I guess when I logged into the server
to do some admin work it must have remembered that for a while
when I did a test print? So where does the "guest" string come
from? Is it the cgi stuff you provide?
walter





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