CUPS receiving blank username

[Lt. John J. Dunbar]

> 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


Thank you for your quick response, Mr. Sweet.  Those lines repeat continuously as long as the print dialog remains open.  The only other thing that appears is the following regular report:

D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: clients=0
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: jobs=81
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: jobs-active=0
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: printers=2
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: stringpool-string-count=655
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=8400
D [13/Sep/2008:20:49:00 -0400] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=11136