[cups.general] getting the authenticated ipp username

[Michael R Sweet]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Running cups-1.1.23 on a SuSE Linux 10.1 system.
> 
> Dear admins,
> 
> I am just trying to set up authenticated ipp printing using a cups
> server. I configured cupsd.conf for one test printer (named test3 on
> printhost) to force authentication. My windows client then uses
> http://printhost/printers/test3 as printer URL, I am prompted for
> username and password and printing works perfectly good. But ...
> 
> ... for accounting reasons my cups filters need the username the windows
> client authenticated itself at printhost using test3. It seems that all
> the filters still get the windows machines local username. E.g. I am
> logged in as testuser but authenticated myself as litauer when
> installing the printer. If I print a job, it is spooled for testuser not
> for litauer.
> 
> Any solution for this problem? Thanks a lot in advance!

No, the username you get will be the (possibly authenticated) user at
print time.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer