[cups.general] Trying to use lpd://<username>@<host>/<queue> but it's not working

[Michael R Sweet]

Trel wrote:
> Every time I try to use lpd://<username>@<host>/<queue> in one of my printers, the result is it strips out <username>@ and I'm
> left with
> 
> lpd://<host>/<queue> which of course means my documents will not print.
> 
> When I googled on this subject, I read that this feature IS there.
> If that's the case, do I have to do something to enable it?
> (Also, which was the first version that supported this?)

LPD does not support authentication and passes the local username
in the LPD control file.  The URI username field is reserved for
authentication.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer