[cups.general] Negotiate vs Basic Auth

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Oct 4 12:44:22 PDT 2007


Daniel Henninger wrote:
> Hi Michael!  Let me bounce a proof of concept idea off of you.  Lets go with the idea here that I need both basic auth and kerberos support.  Now I know I can't get both from the same URI.  However, what if I could reference the same printer via a different URI.  Just an ugly example but:
> http://mycupsserver.org:631/printersviabasicauth/printername
> 
> Can you think of a way that that would work "right now out of the box"?  (some other uri that points to the very same queue, just uses different authentication as per my cupsd.conf)

You could mirror each queue as a class, and assign the other AuthType
to the classes...

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





More information about the cups mailing list