[cups.general] Authentication
henri
henri at stmargarets.school.nz
Mon Oct 6 12:48:26 PDT 2008
Although PrintAgent is probably overkill if you never needed to
provide authentication. It may be useful if you are in a bind.
Hope this helps.
> So what's the big changes in authentication?
>
> I've *never* had to really deal with this in all the years that I've
> been using
> CUPS. With this last set of upgrades I've been rendered completely
> non-functional.
>
> And when I try to print something I get these errors that indicate I
> really need
> to provide a password. There's nothing in the client to assign a
> user/pass to a
> print session so I'm not sure what it's asking for. I have tried to
> disable the
> authentication requirement blocks but I'm not seeing any improvement.
>
> From what I gather from the docs:
>
> @LOCAL actually means the local SUBNET (192.168.1.0/24) and not
> localhost
> (127.0.0.1). True/False?
>
> If I want the printers to be accessible from the network clients, I
> have to turn
> on the following:
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAllow @LOCAL
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
>
> And I do not need to add any mention of 192.168.1.* ???
> And for the <Location />
>
> <Location />
> # Allow shared printing...
> Order allow,deny
> Allow localhost, 192.168.1.*
> </Location>
>
>
> Unfortunately this results in just flat 403 forbidden for something
> as benign as
> /help. It's going backwards... I've never had this much trouble
> with CUPS on
> the network. Usually it's getting the printers configured.
>
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