[cups] Cups default/private job options

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

El 8/3/19 a les 14:58, Johannes Meixner ha escrit:
> 
> 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.

that article is very interesting. It gave me the key point:

> "There is no such thing as "THE" default settings for a print queue."

> 
> 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.

well, this is something that I have to look deeply. However I have not
seen how to override an option made by the user.

Best regards,


Leopold


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