New printer administration tool design for comments

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Fri Feb 10 01:33:15 UTC 2006


Tim Waugh wrote:
> cupsd.conf: -----------
> | Allow from localhost |
> | AuthClass Basic      |
>  ----------------------
> 
> printers.conf: ------
> | AllowUser the_user |
>  --------------------
> 
> In addition to the current "certificates" method of
> avoiding the need to type in a password when submitting jobs, we could
> patch CUPS to use D-BUS for the same purpose.

This is exactly what d-bus was designed to do.  Go for it.  (If we ever 
get our cert story together, it would be great to support that as a 
method as well.)

--Chris




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