[cups] CUPS won't send my user name to the printer

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Sep 12 19:09 Brian Potkin wrote (excerpt):
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 15:50, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> To set up a test printer:
>>
>> 1) Add support for file output in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>> FileDevice Yes
>
> OK.
>
>> then restart:
>> /etc/init.d/cups restart
>
> OK, but 'service cups restart' should suit a system with any init system.
>
>> 2) Set up printer queue
>> lpadmin -p foofile -v file:/tmp/fee
>
> This is a raw queue. Raw queues do not work with file: device queues,

See
"A backend that sends its input into a file for debugging"
at
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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