[cups] Provide password for CLI tools

[Stephan]

Michael,

I understand. I have created a tool that saves a PPD using
_ppdCreateFromIPP. I am attaching this tool to this email.

It would be of advantage if such a tool would become part of the CUPS
distribution.

As for the Webinterface, doesn´t it make sense to convert the API to REST
(e.g. JSON) and make the HTML pages use this API? This would allow other
systems to interact with CUPS easily as IPP is obviously much harder to
implement.


Thanks,

Stephan

2017-04-05 17:31 GMT+02:00 Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com>:

> Stephan,
>
> You can expect this to break in random and inconvenient ways, as it is not
> a supported interface in the way you are using it.
>
> In the grand scheme of things, you would be better off using the
> _ppdCreateWithIPP function to make a PPD and then created queues with it.
> That interface is stable and unlikely to change.
>
>
> > On Apr 4, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Stephan <stephanwib at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > I did some experimentation this morning and I am now able to add IPP
> > Everywhere queues like this:
> >
> > curl \
> >        -u root:<password> \
> >        -H "Cookie: org.cups.sid=f61afe434fbf8086ba477899aaba375f" \
> >        -F "org.cups.sid=f61afe434fbf8086ba477899aaba375f" \
> >        -F "OP=add-printer" \
> >        -F "PRINTER_NAME=xxx" \
> >        -F "PRINTER_LOCATION=" \
> >        -F "DEVICE_URI=ipp://10.70.235.31/" \
> >        -F "PPD_NAME=everywhere" \
> >        http://<host>:631/admin
> >
> > This does even work with an arbitrary cookie.
> >
> >
> > 2017-04-04 14:18 GMT+02:00 Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com>:
> >
> >> Stephan,
> >>
> >>> On Apr 4, 2017, at 3:17 AM, Stephan <stephanwib at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> One last thing that comes to my mind is the Webinterface. Would it be
> >>> possible to connect to it in a REST style fashion and add IPP
> everywhere
> >>> queues?
> >>
> >> No, that is explicitly blocked to mitigate browser-based attacks.
> >>
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