[cups.general] suse 10.2, CUPS 1.2.7: cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate notfound!

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Aug 5 14:59 ekkard gerlach wrote (shortened):
> Michael Sweet schrieb:
>> On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, ekkard gerlach wrote:
>>> ...
>>> so on.  Suse 9.2 with an older CUPS works fine using /dev/usb/lpX
>>> directly. Why does CUPS 1.2.7. not allow printing to /dev/usb/lpX?
>>
>> Because the "X" in "/dev/usb/lpX" is assigned randomly, which can be
>> bad even for identical printers since they may not have identical
>> media, etc.
....
> I was surprised finding a Suse 9.2 installation on my laptop! I just
> tried to insert  DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0  to printers.conf 5 minutes
> ago. And it works immediately!! It *must* be a bug in CUPS 1.2.7!

See
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1
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Since CUPS 1.2 (i.e. since openSUSE 10.2) the old style
USB DeviceURI "usb:/dev/usb/lp*" is no longer allowed.
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Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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