[cups.general] Re: Disabling password authentication with cancel command?

[Till Kamppeter]

joakim.nyberg at kolumbus.fi wrote:
> 
>>Lähettäjä: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmx.net>
>>Päiväys: 2006/05/18 to AM 11:20:49 EEST
>>Vastaanottaja: Joakim Nyberg <joakim.nyberg at kolumbus.fi>
>>Aihe: Re: Disabling password authentication with cancel command?
>>
>>Joakim Nyberg wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you, I have now updated to CUPS 1.2. I am trying to figure out how to set a policy for allowing the cancellation of jobs by a non-root user with the command line command cancel.
>>>I am not sure but is the "Policy" section in cupsd.conf only for the webinterface or does it also affect the command-line commands?
>>>Any hints on how to set the policy would be great!
>>
>>It also affects the command line commands. You can get even easier to
>>non-restricted job-canceling. Go into the web interface
>>(https://localhost:631/) and click the "Adminitration" tab. Then you
>>find five check boxes on the right to configure the CUPS daemon. Check
>>the one which allows everyone to cancel everone's jobs and click the
>>button to submit the changes. When asked for login and password enter
>>"root" and the root password. CUPS is restarted automatically and from
>>now on there should be no authentication any more for canceling jobs.
>>
>>   Till
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you for your mail. 
> Yes, I located the checkbox in the web interface but it was allready checked. I tried unchecking and checking it again but to no avail. It still asks:
> XXX at YYY:~/temp$ lpstat
> ZZZ-150               XXX              99328   Thu 18 May 2006 11:28:25 AM EEST
> XXX at YYY:~/temp$ cancel -a
> Password for XXX on localhost? 
> 
> And the odd thing is that when I provide my password for user XXX it does not accept it. Everything is local (printer, user logged on, etc.), could that affect something?
> I am also trying to understand how I could set a policy in the cupsd.conf to allow purging of jobs but it seems to go over my head.
> Any suggestions?
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Joakim
> 
> 

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