[cups.general] authentication issues

[Tomas Davidek]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Tomas Davidek wrote:
>   
>> Hi Michael,
>>  thanks a lot for the hints. So I set "DefaultAuthType BasicDigest",  
>> "Require user @lpadmin" and then run "lppasswd -a admin -g lpadmin".  
>> But I still cannot authenticate to the system, looking at the  
>> error_log I found a strange error message:
>>
>> E [18/Sep/2009:13:00:58 +0200] Authorized using Basic, expected  
>> Digest!
>>     
>
> That sounds like a bug in CUPS - can you file a report at:
>
>      http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> so we can track this?  My guess is that we are incorrectly flagging  
> the authentication as Digest because we are consulting passwd.md5,  
> when in fact we should be marking as BasicDigest or Digest based on  
> the provided credentials instead.
>   
OK, I've submitted the bug report. BTW, the same problem occurs when 
setting "DefaultAuthType Digest" instead of BasicDigest.

Another question - you mentioned that Digest uses the HTTP Digest 
authentication method which is not
universally supported in web browsers. How do I figure out whether my 
browser supports it?

Best regards
               Tomas

           Tomas

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