[cups.general] When printing a Test Page from cups1.1.X serverto1.2.1server I keep getting "guest" as user identification (extranote)

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jun 16 13:13:37 PDT 2006


wtautz wrote:
> ...
> 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?

Yes.

 > So where does the "guest" string come
> from? Is it the cgi stuff you provide?

Yes, the default user is passed as "guest", and internally CUPS
uses this throughout when no username is available.

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