unable to manage jobs

[Amy Tanner]

> I was assuming you wanted to indeed access from localhost, not from a remote one.
>
> > So I changed to Allow From All and I'm getting the same
> > results I was getting earlier.
>
> Strange.... Did I forget something? Hmm, yes, maybe. Add a line
>
>   AuthClass Anonymous
>
> so the complete section reads:
>
> <Location /jobs>
>    AuthType None
>    AuthClass Anonymous
>    Order Deny,Allow
>    Deny From All
>    Allow From localhost
> </Location>
>
> > I have read about the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file.  We did not have one
> > on our debian print server.  We have tried creating one, but I'm not
> > sure what to put in it.
>
> Run the command
>
>   lppasswd -a amy
>
> to add user "amy" to the file. It will be created if it does not exist.
>
> > If we are running as user lp, should we add
> > user lp to this passwd.md5 file (using lppasswd)?
>
> No need.
>
> This file is only relevant if you use "AuthType Digest". That AuthType uses its own, separated database. ("AuthType Basic" uses the standard system /etc/{passwd,shadow} files.)
>
> You don't need if if you want to run unauthenticated.
>
> One more point (and to my shame, I'm not sure about it at the moment, and too tired to think hard about it):
> You may need to change to "RunAsUser No" in cupsd.conf; cupsd will then run as root, and this may be necessary if you want to give all users the right to manage each other's job anonymously.



I got it working before I saw your response. I found another posting that noted that SUSE by default uses digest and RunAsUser=yes.  We decided we should be using authentication anyway, so we added an account with lppasswd.

Thank you for your help.