[cups] Cups default/private job options

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Mar 7 19:29 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote (excerpt):
>>>>> Konica Minolta printer C258 that has an authentication system.
>>>>>
>>>>> The manufacturer has some non public ppd and driver
...
>>>>> - can I fix in some way that default options
>>>>>   to be non modifiable by the user?
>>>>> - or, can I hide that options in some way that the apps
>>>>>   cannot set or see that parameters?
...
> So, let me adapt my question. If I have a parameter,
> for instance a paper size, or color or black and I,
> as a system administrator want to fix it and not let
> the users to changed, how can I do it?

When it is about options in a PPD file, see

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Print_Settings_with_CUPS

how that works and what you as administrator can do.

That article is somewhat old so that this or that detail
may have changed but in general it should still apply.


See also "What is a PPD file and how does it work?" in
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell


In contast CUPS generic options that are not in a PPD file
see https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html
can of course not be managed by editing the PPD file.
I don't know if CUPS generic options can be managed at all.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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