[cups-devel] [UNKN] STR #4564: Undue error message using cupsaccept

Arney noreply at cups.org
Tue Jan 20 05:44:53 PST 2015


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[STR New]

Assume a system with user accounts 'root', 'peter' (member of @lpadmin) and
'sue'. Create a printer, e.g.

root at machine $ lpadmin -p Foobar -m drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd -v
/dev/null

cupsaccept works as expected:
root at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
# Works
peter at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
# Works
sue at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
cupsaccept: Operation failed: client-error-forbidden

Now we change access control on the printer:
root at machine $ lpadmin -p Foobar -u allow:sue

BUG: We get an error message for root and peter, even though cupsaccept
will correctly alter printer to accept jobs.
root at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
cupsaccept: Operation failed: client-error-not-authorized
# Operation did NOT fail
peter at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
cupsaccept: Operation failed: client-error-not-authorized
# Operation did NOT fail
sue at machine $ cupsaccept Foobar
cupsaccept: Operation failed: client-error-forbidden
# As expected, and printer still rejecting jobs

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4564
Version: 1.7.2
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