[cups.general] Debian Etch CUPS errors: cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data

Wed Apr 18 17:17:24 PDT 2007

Hello-

I have spent the better part of two days trying to resolve a CUPS
problem in Debian Etch without success.  Hopefully, someone here can
direct me to a fix.

I have a plain-vanilla Etch netinstall server with the "print-server"
package set installed, which includes CUPS 1.2.7.

Here is the problem:  I have CUPS installed and my HP 1300 LaserJet USB
printer seems to be configured correctly.  (I had to set up my CUPS SSL
certificates manually in order to be able to access the admin pages
remotely.)  I can print without issue from the web admin screen.  I can
also print from the command line with "lp" from the server itself.  I
can see the shared printers in the GNOME print utility on my other
Debian boxes, although I cannot set up a client printer manually by
entering in the ipp info (see next paragraph).  I can connect and send a
print to the CUPS server from one of these Debian clients.  Everything
up to this point seems to be working perfectly fine just like the other
CUPS servers I've set up over the years in Debian, FreeBSD, and Slackware.

However, in this case, the print jobs I send from clients just stop and
do not print.  I get similar errors when trying to set up a client
printer using ipp://serverip:631/printers/hp132

Here is what I see in my /var/log/cups/error_log file:

D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
ipp://localhost/printers/hp1300
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0
(successful-ok)
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
ipp://localhost/printers/hp132
D [17/Apr/2007:21:17:02 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0
(successful-ok)

Here is my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file:

# Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug" for
# troubleshooting...
#LogLevel warning
LogLevel debug

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup lpadmin

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
#Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Port 631

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow @LOCAL

# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>

# Restrict access to the admin pages...
<Location /admin>
  Encryption Required
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>

# Restrict access to configuration files...
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Basic
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>

# Set the default printer/job policies...
<Policy default>
  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an adminstrator...
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription
Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job
Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # All administration operations require an adminstrator to authenticate...
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes
Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer
Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job
Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Class
CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Basic
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>

#
# Printcap: the name of the printcap file.  Default is /etc/printcap.
# Leave blank to disable printcap file generation.
#

Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap

#
# PrintcapFormat: the format of the printcap file, currently either
# BSD or Solaris.  The default is "BSD".
#

#PrintcapFormat BSD
#PrintcapFormat Solaris

#
# PrintcapGUI: the name of the GUI options panel program to associate
# with print queues under IRIX.  The default is "/usr/bin/glpoptions"
# from ESP Print Pro.
#
# This option is only used under IRIX; the options panel program
# must accept the "-d printer" and "-o options" options and write
# the selected printer options back to stdout on completion.
#

#PrintcapGUI /usr/bin/glpoptions

These "cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided" errors just keep
repeating over and over.  What does that error mean?

In all my Google searches, I found similar reports in the Ubuntu forums,
Gentoo forums, Fedora forums, and elsewhere.  There is an old Debian bug
(#381280) about this issue and I emailed a follow up to the bug saying
the problem still exists.  There are bug reports in the Ubuntu launchpad
with similar issues.  Nobody seems to have a specific fix.

If anyone has a clue on what this problem is and how to fix it, I would
be most grateful.

Many thanks-
Chess
-- 
Chess Griffin
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http://www.chessgriffin.com
http://www.linuxreality.com

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