[cups.general] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided- error_log

[Michael Sweet]

The particular message you are seeing "No authentication data provided" will be shown whenever an unauthenticated request comes in. This is not an error, and nothing is going wrong, it is simply a debug message to show whether the client request has authentication info.

On Feb 8, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Chris Hasler wrote:

> Hi Byran,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I have LogLevel debug in the cupsd.conf. I know I can change the LogLevel but I would like to "fix" the issues that is producing these messages.  That way I can still use the log to troubleshoot other issues without having to filter throught the "crap" messages.
> 
> I now tried stopping cups then backing up then clearing the the /var/cache/cups/job.cache file then restarting cups on both the 1.3.7 and 1.4.6 cups servers still get the messages. I've also stopped cups and cleared all the control and job files in /var/spool/cups but still the messages keep rolling into the log.
> 
> This is getting annoying.
> 
> 
> Chris H.
> 
>>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> It looks like the messages are debug messages.  Do you have
>> 
>>     LogLevel debug2
>> 
>> or
>> 
>>     LogLevel debug
>> 
>> set in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf?  If so, changing it to
>> 
>>     LogLevel warn
>> 
>> may stop the messages.  It won't stop the cause of the messages, but it=20
>> should stop the messages from filling up error_log.
>> 
>> ~ Bryan
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair