[cups.general] Passing username to printer

[Michael Sweet]

Support for this was added in CUPS 1.6; now you can set the CUPS_USER environment variable or "User" directive in the ~/.cups/client.conf file.

That said, if your other print system requires authentication you can set things up with the auth-info-required option, e.g.:

    lpadmin -p printer -o auth-info-required=username,password

and then add "auth-info=username,password" to your default options for the printer:

    lpoptions -p printer -o auth-info=username,password

(This only works for SMB and IPP queues at the moment...)


On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:24 AM, John Rowe <rowe at excc.ex.ac.uk> wrote:

> We need to print to another print system that uses different usernames to ours.
> 
> We can do this at the command line with lpr -U username  but all attempts to use lpotions to allow people to set another username as the default for that printer fail.
> 
> Furthermore I can see no way of configuring cups to call a program as an authenticator for that printer.
> 
> Any sugestions? It seems insane to have an option that can be used from the command line but not from within an application.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair