[cups] Supports CUPS Kerberos ticket saving and forwarding for backends?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello Michael,

On Sep 30 07:37 Michael Sweet wrote (excerpt):
> We used to exercise this approach, where cupsd would get a TGT
> and allow backends to re-issue tickets as needed.  But back
> in CUPS 1.6 or so we dropped doing so (too fragile,
> difficult to deploy on Wi-Fi networks) and instead have
> the IPP backend (and the SMB backend on OS X - can't speak
> to what is being done on Linux for Samba) "trampoline" into
> the user account to send the print job as the user, with
> the user's Kerberos session...

Many thanks for your information!

It helped me a lot to better understand what is going on.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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