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. :) -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part