[cups.general] getting the authenticated ipp username

[Christoph Litauer]

Michael R Sweet schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Hmm, thanks Michael. What's with the ipp-job-attributes? No chance to
get the authenticated user there?
Maybe I can search for the printjob in cups access-log based on the jobs
timestamp?

Just guessing hopefully ... :-)

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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