[cups.general] Does 1.2.0 still use passwd in URI forsmb printers?

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> wtautz wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is it true that smb printing requires explicit entry of userid and
>>> clear-text password in the uri? Has this changed in 1.2.0? I haven't
>>> actually tried this. Just some of my colleagues have mentioned this
>>> in the past as a result I may have phrased this incorrectly or worse
>>> misunderstood the issue.
>>
>> This is still the case, although CUPS 1.2 now offers a way for the
>> Samba smbspool program (which is the smb backend) to indicate that
>> it needs a password so that CUPS can add it with the information from
>> the user session that initiated the print job.  However, you'll need
>> to ask the Samba folks to add this code...
>>
> Is there a known patch that can be applied to specific version of Samba
> to effect this change?

Not to my knowledge.

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