[cups.general] Authenticated Printing (Linux on Linux) using CUPS and IPP

[henri]

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.

> > 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.