Bug#703424: Regression: CUPS Web interface fails to authenticate Kerberos access to IPP information

["Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>]

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Hi Timothy, and thanks for your bugreport,

Le mardi, 19 mars 2013 14.32:33, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
> When using the Web interface to CUPS in a Kerberized environment, CUPS
> fails to pass Kerberos authentication information to the local IPP socket.
>  This manifests as access being denied to any pages which access printer
> information, even though the user logged in via Kerberos has been granted
> access to both the pages and printers in question.  The CUPS error log
> shows that it has rejected unauthenticated access to the printers in
> question, even though the prior access to the Web printer list page was
> successfully authenticated.
> 
> This appears to be a regression introduced when resolving Bug 640939,
> specifically this patch removes the ability for CUPS to pass Kerberos
> login credentials to the local IPP socket:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=105;filename=cups-1.5.3-2.
> 14-nmu.diff;att=1;bug=640939

Can you confirm that this still applies to CUPS 1.6.2 (as uploaded to 
unstable)?

Thanks in advance, cheers,

OdyX