[cups] Authenticated and unauthenticated queues

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Jul 22 05:50:12 PDT 2015


Rick,

Put the AuthType and Require lines in the Policy definition.  Putting it on /printers applies those requirements to all printers.


> On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Rick Cochran <rcc2 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to have both authenticated and unauthenticated queues.  The attached cupsd.conf _almost_ works.  The problem is in the following stanza:
> 
> <Location /printers>
>  AuthType Basic
>  Encryption Required
>  Order deny,allow
>  Allow localhost
> #  Require user @SYSTEM
> </Location>
> 
> If I set the AuthType to "Basic" as above, the authenticated queues work and the unauthenticated queues do not work.
> 
> If I set the AuthType to "None", the unauthenticated queues work and the authenticated queues do not work.
> 
> By "work", I mean prompt for ID/password (or not) and actually print.
> 
> By "do not work", I mean the server just sits there and does not fully accept the print job.
> 
> I use "-op-policy=noauth" when creating the unauthenticated queues.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Rick
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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