[cups] CUPS RHEL 5 versus CUPS RHEL 8

[gene heskett]

On 8/18/23 01:48, Jörg Thümmler wrote:
> 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
You may be getting cups from the wrong src. Its latest is at:
<https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups>
Michael is no longer at Apple.
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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?
> 

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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