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

Trel ng at krahs-emag.com
Tue Nov 4 22:18:11 PST 2008


Michael R Sweet wrote:
> 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...)
> 
That should be an option should it not?




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