Authenticated Printing (Linux on Linux) usingCUPS and IPP

[Michael Lackner]

> Sorry this is slightly off topic. PrintAgent offers CUP's print-job
> authentication so I believe this is relevant to your question.
>
> PrintAgent is a component of PrintingWorks : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks
>
> There is a demonstration available online. The demonstration is shown
> on Mac OS X. However, PrintAgent is capable of providing print
> authentication on most modern operating systems including RedHat as it
> is written in ruby.
>
> PrintAgent is a free download and is licensed under the GNU GPL so you
> can tailor the system to meet your requirements.
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks for your reply. I guess PrintAgent is a CUPS Backend Wrapper just like Papercut and PyKota? Question is, how usernames and passwords are being passed to PrintAgent. I guess, i will meet heavy resistance in our department, if I try to force Linux users to install a client application for this..

But thanks for showing me PrintAgent, I'll try that, hope it doesn't conflict with Papercut.

> > > On top of that, why am I not being asked with some sort of GUI
> > popup?
> > > If i hadn't started Adobe Reader from the bash, i would have never
> > > seen the CLI dialog prompting me for a password to authenticate
> > > against the server...
> >
> > For what it's worth, I am working on a solution for this as part of
> > the
> > system-config-printer administration and job monitoring tool in Red
> > Hat
> > Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

That would also be very convenient, if one could just enter UN/PWD in the system-config-printer GUI (maybe for IPP and SMB?).

Thanks so far.