[cups.general] Passing extra information fromenvironmenttobackend?

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Nov 6 08:14:07 PST 2007


Johannes Meixner wrote:
> ...
> As far as I understand the PassEnv documentation it means that
> an environment variable which is known to the cupsd would be
> passed to its childs but as far as I see, this doesn't mean
> that a client program like "lp" passes the environment variable
> to the cupsd.

Correct.  I think Kurt was leaning towards the "run a local cupsd
as the logged-in user for that session" type of solution, such that
the system-wide cupsd would not be involved.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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