[cups.general] Authentication

[Michael R Sweet]

Tom Allison wrote:
> 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?

Correct, but localhost is *ALWAYS* allowed regardless of the Order,
Allow, or Deny directives.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer