[cups.general] authentication problem

[henri]

I would suggest that you have a look at PrintAgent, which is component  
of PrintingWorks.

Hope this helps.


> Hi,
>
> I'm new to CUPS and actually trying to set up a complete  
> configuration with OpenLDAP.
>
> I've been searching in CUPS help pages and tried many options since  
> 2 days, but haven't found any clear answer to my problem.
> Several printers are defined in my printers.conf, I'm using  
> authentication against LDAP to allow my users to use some printers,  
> and leave the others printers for another departement.
>
> I've set up the 'Require' option as follows :
>
> <Location /printers/myprinter1>
> <Limit ALL>
> AuthType Basic
> Order Deny,Allow
> Allow From All
> Require group group1 group2
> </Limit>
> </Location>
>
> I've configured my CUPS server as an LDAP client, and authentication  
> works fine for authorized users,
> they appear in access_log and can print. When I try to print using a  
> login which belongs to an unauthorized
> group, the access_log file endlessly fills with that error message :
>
> util1 [03/Oct/2008:11:20:32 +0200] "POST /printers/myprinter1 HTTP/ 
> 1.1" 401 0
> [...]
> util1 [03/Oct/2008:11:20:32 +0200] "POST /printers/myprinter1 HTTP/ 
> 1.1" 401 0
>
> The user can't print (which is OK), but the application I try to  
> print from (OO,iceweasel,kedit...) crashes most
> of the time. I'm actually searching for a way to tell the user he  
> cannot print, and also stop filling the access_log file on my CUPS  
> server.
>
> Anyone has already met this problem ? I've tried many options in  
> cupsd.conf but doesn't have any clue left for the moment ...
>
> Thanks for your help :)
>