CUPS receiving blank username

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Sep 13 17:01:04 PDT 2008


Lt. John J. Dunbar wrote:
> I've been plagued by this issue for a few days now - it seemingly appeared out of nowhere because no changes were made to the software on my system or any of the configuration files.
> 
> When trying to print either locally or from a remote machine I'm seeing the following lines in my error_log:
> 
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient: 14 from localhost (Domain)
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 14 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdIsAuthorized: username=""
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdSendError: 14 code=401 (Unauthorized)
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdSendHeader: WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS"
> D [13/Sep/2008:11:40:03 -0400] cupsdCloseClient: 14

OK, so this looks like the initial challenge - the next request
should have the auth info in the headers...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




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