[cups.general] job-originating-user-name not working suddenly?

[Michael R Sweet]

Brett Ussher wrote:
> Ok, let me try it from this angle then.  What I'm trying to do is get
> a print queue to do the equivalent of what using the -U option with
> lp does.  Job-originating-user-name was doing this for me until God
> knows why it stopped.  If job-originating-user-name is going to be
> deprecated at some point, then is there something that I can do that
> will make the print queue basically do a "lp -U <username>" whenever
> a job is pushed to it?

job-originating-user-name is not and will not be deprecated - it is
required for IPP conformance.  That said, authentication effectively
overrides any value you pass in - again, per the IPP spec...

job-originating-user-name-default is not part of the IPP standard and
is not supported.

> Also, I should say that I'm using this CUPS server more as a print
> spooler than a full print server.  It simply exists so that I can
> print my homework assignments to a printer that is attached to
> another print server.  Therefore, I'm making lpd:\\ queues to an <IP
> address\queue name>.
 > ...

Use "lpd://username@ipaddress/queue" to force the username for all jobs.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer