[cups] CUPS RHEL 5 versus CUPS RHEL 8

[Jörg Thümmler]

Am 17.08.23 um 21:26 schrieb John Adams:
> Hi, folks,
> 
>       I've been migrating a set of servers from RHEL 5 to RHEL 8 and everything is fine, with one exception: CUPS fails me, a lot. Despite my best efforts, I'm unable to get fairly basic stuff working. I can't authorize users to print from the command line without entering a password, and I've got perfectly ordinary print queues that just won't print.
> 
>       Has anyone else experienced this? Is CUPS just not good with RHEL 8?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       John A
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Hi,

unfortunately I'm not experienced in RHEL... but your first problem 
sounds familiar to me ("I can't authorize users to print from the 
command line without entering a password") - my Opensuse does the same 
after I by accident once activated a "kerberos" thing on cups website, 
(deactivating does not help):
For some reason cups (or whoever) changes my printers.conf entries for 
smb printers. Usually there is a "AuthInfoRequired username,password" 
line for such printer and randomly this is changed magically to 
"AuthInfoRequired negotiate". This leads to the need of passwd entering.

After a lot of searching with no success to stop this, I came out with a 
periodic automatic checking and repairing this ;-(

For the queues not printing: the jobs where builded, when you try to 
print? Localhost:631 shows the jobs and the printers correctly?

-- 
cu

jth