[cups.general] automatic mainenance script: authentification Problem

[henri]

You may want to have a look at PrintAgent a PrintingWorks component?  
Even if you just look at the way it works and then implement this  
system in your scripts.

Hope this helps.

> We have a script, that cancels any job that sits at the head of the  
> queue for too long, and re-enables the printer. This is done by a  
> bunch of perl, reading the output of lpq, and calles cancel and  
> cupsenable, if needed. Since the upgrade to cups-1.2.4-11.18.el5_2.1  
> (we used an old Mandriva 2006 system before) I do not seem to be  
> able to generate a cupsd.cof, which allows the script to issue  
> cupsenable and cancel without beeing asked for a password, while at  
> the same time, regualr users can only cancel their own jobs. Any  
> hints? The Documentation states, that certificates can be used, but  
> it doesn't say how.