[cups.general] Konica Minolta bizhub C253 and authentication

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

A Dijous 24 Novembre 2011, Helge Blischke va escriure:
> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> 
> > A Dijous 24 Novembre 2011, Helge Blischke va escriure:
> >> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > in my job we have a Konica Minolta bizhub C253 that requires that user
> >> > authenticate to print a job.
> >> > 
> >> > The windows driver could configure this option, but I have not be able
> >> > to use it in the GNU/Linux or MacOs version.
> >> > 
> >> > I have searched on the web and finally I got a page that target me [1],
> >> > but I cannot set this options on mu printer.
> >> > 
> >> > So, if I would like to activate a authenticate by job, I guess that I
> >> > have to modify something in the ppd file of in the cupsd.conf file?
> >> > 
> >> > Where can I set CUPS-Authenticate-Job parameter?
> >> > 
> >> > best regards,
> >> > 
> >> > Leo
> >> > 
> >> > [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1530162
> >> 
> >> If you are using the printer's PostScript interpreter (not PCL6 or
> >> PC-Fax), I probably can give you kind of a workaround if you only need a
> >> limited amount of username/password combinations.
> > 
> > I think that I would just print. I just need that the user could put their
> > username/password combination.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Leo
> > 
> 
> First, AFAIK, CUPS provides several autthentication methods for the clients 
> to authenticate against the cups server, not against individual printers.

No?

I thought that you could authenticate against individual printers. If not ....

> Second, there is a technical issue: the autentication Konica Minolta uses 
> for the bizhub Cxxx printers (MFC devices, essentially), uses a proprietary 
> encryption method for the user name and password combination which requires 
> a proprietary client application to submit "secure" print jobs. And this 
> proprietary software is only provided for Windows platforms (2000 and up).

:-(

Ok,

thanks for the info.


Regards,

Leo


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