[cups] Caching credentials for CUPS printing on Linux

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Rick,

> Is there a way for users to cache their credentials for IPPS basic authentication?
> Something similar to what OS X does would be good.

Run the following in the background or as a desktop window manager auto-startup :
 /usr/bin/system-config-printer-applet
it uses GNOME Keyring which is analogous to OS X's Keychain for storing credentials. When printing a job that requires authentication, it will provide an authentication dialog box with a tick-box to remember password. When ticked, it won't prompt for credentials in the future.

But system-config-printer-applet will only provide an authentication dialog box when the application doing the printing doesn't have native CUPS authentication support.



Cheers,
Doug