[cups.general] More Kerberos help needed

Rick Cochran rcc2 at cornell.edu
Tue Sep 16 09:25:49 PDT 2008


Please respond to this request.
-Rick

Rick Cochran wrote:
> I have now built CUPS under RHEL AS4 and RHEL AS5 with a prefixed installation 
> of MIT Kerberos 1.6.3.  I find I have to use
> 
> sudo /lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /usr/local/kerberos/lib 
> /usr/local/cups/sbin/cupsd
> 
> to start it, but that's just fine.
> 
> However, I still cannot get Kerberos authentication to work for printing.
> 
> The following would be very helpful:
> 
> A "theory of operation" for Kerberized CUPS.  What model is used for Kerberized 
> printing with CUPS?  Does the user on the client authenticate to the spooler on 
> the client, and then the spooler on the client authenticate to the spooler on 
> the server?  Or does the user on the client authenticate directly to the spooler 
> on the server?
> 
> Examples of the relevant config files (cupsd.conf, printers.conf, etc.) for both 
> a client and a server.  My goal is to be able to determine the identity of the 
> user who initiated the print job, and to restrict printing to users who are so 
> authenticated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Rick
> 
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