Still unable to authenticate with Kerberos in CUPS 1.3.5

John A. Murdie john at cs.york.ac.uk
Wed Jan 23 12:11:32 PST 2008


There's another problem here, of course. Once one has edited the MacOS X client's cupsd.conf to have 'AuthType Negotiate' instead of 'AuthType Basic', then any interaction with the MacOS X print system through the local scheduler will require that one has a Kerberos ticket to do that. Without one, one can't edit the changed cupsd.conf through the browser interface, cancel jobs in local queues, etc etc. Telling our laptop users that they can only print to our Linux print server with Kerberos authentication will, I think, meet with some objections.

Would making CUPS authentication type be per-host (or perhaps even per-printer) be a better way?

The easy way to start over on the client is 'Reset printing system' as described in the article from Apple Discussions.

John A. Murdie




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