[cups] Mixing kerberos and basic authentication

[Michael Sweet]

Volkmar,

Not at present.  You can request this functionality on the CUPS.org bugs page at:

	https://www.cups.org/str.php

One issue with doing so is that many HTTP implementations (CUPS included) have difficulty supporting multiple WWW-Authenticate values; if we support this, we'll need to proceed carefully.


> On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:27 AM, Volkmar Glauche <volkmar.glauche at uniklinik-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I have set up a CUPS server to support kerberos authentication for both printing and web interface. However, I would still like to have a fallback (basic/password) authentication method for the following use cases:
> * user authentication from non-kerberized clients
> * authentication for administration tasks (users in the @SYSTEM group have to authenticate to the local password database of the server).
> Is there any way to configure CUPS in a way to prefer kerberos, but offer basic authentication if the former fails?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Volkmar
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair