[cups.general] Kerberos in CUPS 1.5

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jun 21 22:45:43 PDT 2011


On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:00 PM, bse wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> Thanks! This will make administration much easier.
> I suppose that this change is implemented for both Mac and Linux.

Yes.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair





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