[cups.development] How is backend authentication supposed towork ?

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Mar 11 10:26:45 PST 2010


On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Christer Bernérus wrote:
>> ...
>> From what I can see, both in the code and in reality (Mac), the backend
> returns CUPS_BACKEND_AUTH_REQUIRED. When that happens, the scheduler
> puts the job on hold until "auth-info-required" which in reality seems to be indefinitely.
> 
> Is the printer proxy supposed to do something about this held job?

It will bounce the dock icon (if the proxy is open) and when you click on the resume button it will collect the credentials then.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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