<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Craig White wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1216906376.25414.123.camel@lin-workstation.azapple.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:21 +0000, g wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Andy Eager wrote: <snip> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have no idea how this crap got into cups or even why authentication should be necessary to print locally. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the security deny/allow stuff in cupsd.conf </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">this got me wondering. craig, have you give thought to *group*? because problem is with *authentication*, are you 'authenticated' if you add your user name to 'cups group'? ria, under md 9 or 10, i had problems in printing as a 'user' and i believe that doing so enable me to print. i do recall that i still had to enter 'root' password to make any changes to configs. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">---- The problem isn't with authentication, the problem is that somehow the printer configuration inherited an authentication requirement when there was no desire or action for it to do so. </pre> </blockquote> Absolutely correct. <blockquote cite="mid:1216906376.25414.123.camel@lin-workstation.azapple.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Mucking in groups to solve this issue doesn't make much sense. As for Andy...I have not seen it reappear by itself even after printing but I don't print all that much. Thus I don't see much need in patching source and recompiling (seems to be overkill). </pre> </blockquote> If it's not reappearing then you're lucky in which case recompiling would be overkill. For me, (under F9 at least) it did reappear and I had no real choice. (I got sick of removing the line & restarting cups every time I wanted to print) <blockquote cite="mid:1216906376.25414.123.camel@lin-workstation.azapple.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Craig </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>