Kerberos in CUPS 1.5

[bse]

> I'm still working on the updated Kerberos documentation, but in short the new implementation of Kerberos in CUPS no longer depends on delegation of credentials. Instead, when you print to a Kerberized queue we run the IPP backend as the printing user so you no longer need any special network configuration on the client to make things work - if you can run "kinit" (or the equivalent) then it will "just work". A similar change will need to happen in Samba.
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Thanks! This will make administration much easier.
I suppose that this change is implemented for both Mac and Linux.
//Bse

> A side-effect of the new implementation is that we no longer support Kerberized "relay" queues, e.g.: CUPS -> CUPS -> Windows (SMB), but they never worked reliably anyways...
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> On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:10 AM, bse wrote:
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> > I have a vague memory that someone mentioned that there is some changes in 1.5 that affects printing with Kerberos.
> >
> > Is there any documentation of this, or can anyone give a quick information?
> >
> > //Bse
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