[cups.general] autentication for non-root even on localhost

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:22 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> As far as I know this is because for the cupsd there is just
> a IPP request comming in and the cupsd must make sure that
> it is really johndoe who sent this IPP request.
> 
> On the other hand I wonder why cupsd doesn't need to do the
> same kind of explicite authentication for root on localhost.

Because root provides the '0' certificate.

> By the way:
> Were my questions regarding "Required user name not tested" stupid?

Seems like you're after the UNIX Domain Sockets authentication patch I'm
working on this week. :-)

Tim.
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