[cups-devel] job-password and HP printers

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 10 05:58:17 PST 2017


Stephan,

It doesn't look like this implementation of job-password follows the PWG standard - "hp-save-xxx" are all custom HP attributes, and "job-password-encryption-supported" is missing completely.


> On Feb 10, 2017, at 7:10 AM, Stephan <stephanwib at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I found that HP printers offer job password protection via IPP, e.g.
> my LaserJet 500 M551 reports:
> 
>        hp-save-job-password-type (keyword) = alphanumeric
>        job-password-supported (integer) = 12
>        hp-save-job-password-min-length (integer) = 4
>        hp-save-job-encryption-supported (1setOf keyword) = aes128,aes256
> 
> I used ipptool and print-job-password.test included in CUPS 2.2.2 in
> order to test this. However the options are ignored and the job is
> printed as if nothing was provided.
> 
> Is there anything known about this test case and HP printers?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer




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