[cups.general] autentication for non-root even on localhost
Tim Waugh
twaugh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 8 02:59:35 PST 2007
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.
Hi Johannes,
I've finished the first draft of a patch for authenticating using
SCM_CREDENTIALS over a UNIX domain socket:
http://cups.org/str.php?L2277
Perhaps this helps you?
Tim.
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