[cups.general] cups Digest, Vol 46, Issue 30

Henri Shustak henri at stmargarets.school.nz
Tue Nov 27 23:53:02 PST 2007


One possible solution to this is PrintAgent :
http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printagent/

>The one MAJOR problem I have is that the username that CUPS takes, of
>course, is that of the submitting user on the laptop, which may be
>different from the authenticated organisational username - and the laptop
>username appears on job headers and also gets to printer page accounting
>systems such as PyKota. This is of course bad, bad, bad; one can charge
>one's printing to others merely by creating oneself an account in any
>name one likes on one's laptop. Here this would be monetary theft.
>
>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.
>
>John A. Murdie





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