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

[Michael R Sweet]

Trel wrote:
> Michael R Sweet wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> That's odd because it looks like it's the GUI that has the problem.
> 
> 1.  I enter it as lpd://name@host/queue
> 2.  It records it in printers.conf as lpd://name@host/queue
> 3.  All GUIs, KDE, Gnome, and Cup's web interface show it as lpd://host/queue
> 4.  Actual printing gets sent as lpd://name@host/queue

The username is stripped from the device URI we return to the GUIs
and web interface (for security reasons...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer