[cups] CUPS RHEL 5 versus CUPS RHEL 8

[Jörg Thümmler]

Hi,

could be interesting, which new stuff exactly - can you give a short 
summery?

-- 
cu

jth

Am 30.08.23 um 22:27 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
> Having spent some quality time with CUPS and RHEL 8 the last few days, I'm
> ready to say the problem is not RHEL 8. There was new stuff in CUPS 2.x
> which I was unaware of and it got me.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:58 AM gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> cups mailing list
>>>> cups at cups.org
>>>> https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups
>>>
>>> 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.
>> --
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>    soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>>    - Louis D. Brandeis
>> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> cups mailing list
>> cups at cups.org
>> https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups
>>
> 
>