[cups] Caching credentials for CUPS printing on Linux

Rick Cochran rcc2 at cornell.edu
Wed Nov 4 09:59:40 PST 2015


Doug,

Thanks!  This is just what I was looking for.

I see UQ uses PaperCut.  We're just cranking up to do that.  Perhaps we could 
trade notes.

Yours,
-Rick


On 11/3/15, 8:46 PM, Douglas Kosovic wrote:
> 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
>
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