[cups] CUPS RHEL 5 versus CUPS RHEL 8

[Johnnie W Adams]

Hi,

     I've been kind of narrating this as I figured it out. Somehow, I've
got cups 1.3.7 working from the command line without a Listen
/var/run/cups/cups.sock directive in cupsd.conf . Apparently I can't do
that with cups 2.2.6 . If there's a difference, that's it.

Thanks,

     John A

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:27 AM Jörg Thümmler <listen at vordruckleitverlag.de>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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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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> >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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