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Bug#855961: marked as done (Cups PPD Update authentication requested)

Your message dated Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:33:45 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#855961: Cups PPD Update authentication requested
has caused the Debian Bug report #855961,
regarding Cups PPD Update authentication requested
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Package: cups
Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1

When doing an installation of the latest cups package, when PPDs can be updated, you are prompted for root password on localhost. You can hit enter to by pass, and this is confirmed to break even when running as root. Unfortunately this breaks unattended upgrades.

Processes that get stuck:

root 11264 0.0 0.4 63060 16884 pts/1 S+ 11:48 0:00 _ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups.postinst triggered /usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters
root 11268 0.0 0.0 4336 1596 pts/1 S+ 11:48 0:00 _ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups.postinst triggered /usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters
root 11345 0.0 0.1 65696 5388 pts/1 S+ 11:48 0:00 _ lpadmin -h /var/run/cups/cups.sock -p LANIER_5622 -m gutenprint.5.2://lanier-5622/expert

If you run apt-get from CLI to update you get this prompted:
“Password for root on localhost?”

This appears to be relevant to past cups bug report #662915.

Jeff Burns
Engineering Systems Administrator
 
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On Mon 27 Feb 2017 at 15:58:36 +0000, Jeff Burns wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> After reviewing your results and then double checking my setup, after
> some experimenting I found if I remove client.conf then the prompt for
> a localhost password does not occur anymore. The contents of the
> client.conf were just:
> 
> ServerName localhost

I used this and replicated your experience. :)

> This seems like a pointless/redundant setting that I had if I
> understand it correctly, maybe it was confusing the post install to
> try and connect to itself over localhost thus prompting for a password
> to update the PPDs as if it were an external print server. I think
> after my quick testing this resolves my issue, but was hoping you
> could shed some light on if this explanation makes sense or if there
> is another reason why this would break things?

A client.conf would only be used to connect to a *remote* server when
there is no local cupsd. Having both is not a good thing. I think your
explanation is essentially correct.

You seem happy with the outcome so the report can be closed. Thank you
for your diligent testing.

Cheers,

-- 
Brian.

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