problem Unknown default authorization type Negotiate

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu May 7 11:29:18 PDT 2009


Matthias Ehrig wrote:
> hi,
> 
> we use cups-1.3.10 under a redhat distribution (scientific linux 5.3).
> If I set "DefaultAuthType Negotiate" in my cupsd.conf, then cupsd crashes withe the message
> 
> cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
> 
> and in the cups error_log is the last line (also with debug2):
> 
> W [07/May/2009:12:54:59 +0200] Unknown default authorization type Negotiate on line 15.
> 
> what could be the reason for this and what are the prerequisites for using authorization type Negotiate ?

You need Kerberos and GSSAPI installed along with the -devel packages
required to build programs against them.

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