Per-User Printer Access

[Jonathan Anderson]

I guess this is a wishlist item...

I administer the computers in a graduate lab. I'm trying to roll out more Kubuntu desktops, but people aren't going to accept them as "regular computers" if they can't print.

The computers in question belong to the lab, and I have root / Local Admin access on them. The printers belong to the school, I have no admin access, and users have to pay for their printing. The protocol is SMB.

On a Windows machine, a user connects to the printer using NT credentials. On Linux, however, I need to supply a username and password in /etc/cups/printers.conf! Thus, any user that prints will be doing so with *my* print credits (and grad students do a lot of printing).

So... I need to be able to add a printer as root (to /etc/cups/printers.conf, for example) in order to pick the right driver, and then let *users* specify their NT username/password when they actually try to use it.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This is an issue of the architecture of CUPS, it is not a bug in Ubuntu Linux. Please file an RFE (Request for Enhancement) upstream, on

http://www.cups.org/str.php

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

Done.

Too bad Launchpad can't track the CUPS bug tracker...

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you post the link to your RFE simply into a comment here? Thanks.

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

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The CUPS RFE is STR #1991:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1991+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+Quser+smp

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[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

Bug rejected by CUPS:

"You need to ask the Samba folks for this; FWIW, the upcoming Kerberos support in CUPS *may* provide the necessary hooks, but ultimately it must be supported through the Samba smbspool program..."