Password required?

[Michael Piotrowski]

To answer my own question:

> Is this behavior intentional?  How can I get CUPS without prompting local users for a password?

I don't know whether it is intentional, but the default cupsd.conf contains two policies, "default" and "authenticated."  The "default" policy is the traditional behavior, the "authenticated" policy requires a password even for printing.

Apparently the "authenticated" policy takes precedence over the "default" policy, even though the cupsd.conf reference says under "DefaultPolicy" that the default policy is "default." Explicitly specifying a DefaultPolicy directive didn't seem to have an effect.

Finally I simply deleted the "authenticated" policy from cupsd.conf, and I now can print without authentication again.

Greetings