[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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