Bug#712872: cups: [RFE] Modifying authentication data for a job in the queue

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

Package: cups
Version: 1.6.2-9
Severity: wishlist

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Some programs (such as Libreoffice) do not provide a way to specify a
username and password when printing to a printer that has
"AuthInfoRequired username,password" in its printers.conf entry.

A job created by such a program will sit in the queue until an
administrator removes it.

I'd like a way for the administrator to specify authentication values
for such a job that has been created without them. Something like:

	# lpmodify -o username=foo,password 7
	Enter value for 'password': *******

Here the given value was used for username, and since no password was
specified it was prompted so that it is not visible in the process's
command line arguments, nor is it recorded in the user's shell history.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (540, 'testing'), (530, 'unstable'), (520, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  cups-client            1.6.2-9
ii  cups-common            1.6.2-9
ii  cups-daemon            1.6.2-9
ii  cups-filters           1.0.34-3
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.3-5
ii  cups-server-common     1.6.2-9
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-2
ii  libc-bin               2.17-3
ii  libc6                  2.17-3
ii  libcups2               1.6.2-9
ii  libcupscgi1            1.6.2-9
ii  libcupsimage2          1.6.2-9
ii  libcupsmime1           1.6.2-9
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.6.2-9
ii  libgcc1                1:4.8.1-2
ii  libstdc++6             4.8.1-2
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.15-1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-6
ii  procps                 1:3.3.4-2

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-daemon               <none>
ii  colord                     0.1.21-4
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-6.3
pn  printer-driver-gutenprint  <none>

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.6.2-9
pn  cups-pdf                                   <none>
pn  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db  <none>
pn  hplip                                      <none>
pn  printer-driver-hpcups                      <none>
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.15-1
ii  udev                                       175-7.2

- -- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd

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