Beginner's problem with authentication policyin 1.3.0

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Nov 24 07:51:51 PST 2007


John A. Murdie wrote:
> ...
> A solution would be for CUPS to force the internal username to that
> of the authenticated user. (Would this ever not be required? If so, a
> boolean cupsd.conf directive needs to be added.) I'll have to think a
> bit more to decide how difficult this might be and whether there
> might be a better solution.

If you require authentication, then only the authenticated username
gets used.

Since you don't specify an AuthType in the policy, the authentication
is never triggered for normal printing.

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