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



On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:41 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> 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

That's right, thanks. :)


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