Should I worry about "cupsdAuthorize:No authentication data provided"??

Ed Kasky ed at esson.net
Fri Jan 9 15:03:18 PST 2009


Michael wrote:
> Ed Kasky wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I am new to this forum but not to cups and linux.  Although, I will admit that I am not an expert at debugging error messages - I know just enough to get into trouble ;-)
> >
> > Server runs FC6 with cups-1.3.9 and just upgraded to samba-3.2.7.  I started noticing the follwing in the samba log:
> >
> > [2009/01/09 13:14:13,  2] printing/print_cups.c:cups_async_callback(504)
> >   cups_async_callback: failed to read a new printer list
> >
> > which apparently coresponds to the following in the cups error log:
>
> You can safely ignore this informational message - it is a debug
> message to let us know that no authentication data was passed with
> the request.  You'll see a separate error message when things go
> wrong...

Thanks for the info.  I will create an exemption in my log checker.

Ed




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