[cups.general] Security and lp command and -u option

[Michael R Sweet]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:29 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> We already support many authentication modes and proxy authentication.
>> What is missing on Linux is support for proxy authentication in the
>> desktop environments.
> 
> Could you give an example of what you mean by proxy authentication?  I
> am currently working on a graphical interface for CUPS-Authenticate-Job:
> is that related?

That's one part of it; applications (and in the context of Linux -
GNOME and KDE) can also detect when authentication is required, either
by getting an explicit challenge or by seeing the auth-info-required
attribute and providing the corresponding information.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer