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

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

Control: tags -1 +upstream

Hi Sam, and thanks for your bugreport,

I'm hereby CC'ing Michael Sweet, Cups upstream author.

Le jeudi, 20 juin 2013 13.59:37, Sam Morris a écrit :
> 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.

So you are asking for a feature to modify cups jobs to add missing 
credentials to them so that they can succeed on restricted printers, 
right?

Cheers,

OdyX