[cups.general] is there a cups.schema for ldap?

[Michael Sweet]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:08:30PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> wtautz wrote:
>>> Walter, I notice that cups can talk to ldap. I presume this is for the
>>> purpose
>>> of configuring printers? Perhaps it can do authentication too? Perhaps
>>> the opposite
>>> process works, i.e. cups-->ldap. At least one gets this impression when
>>> reading
>>> the documentation?
>>>
>>> For printers has anyone configured printers in ldap and had cups
>>> successfully configure
>>> itself?
>> No, the current LDAP support is only for advertising printers from a
>> server and not for storing configuration data.
> 
> Maybe this could be done (at least partially) by using the printer 
> schema (rfc3712 I think) and some scripting to configure CUPS' print 
> queues from the contents of your LDAP tree. 

No, unfortunately the printer schema is too limited to be of any use
for CUPS.  We could use it as a pseudo-backend, much as we do for
SNMP, to discover printers on the network, however I've not heard of
anyone using the LDAP printer schema for this... :(

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