GUI does not let you specify AuthType Basic credentials

[Ryan Lovett]

I'd like to be able to have users enter their username and password for printers
that require basic cups authentication. Currently you have to modify the CUPS
config files directly. It'd be really neato if this could be hooked into the
GNOME keyring.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156887: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156887

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

It looks like someone it working towards this:

http://web.verbum.org/blog/2004/Aug/10#eggcups-fun

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened a bug upstream about this here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156887

(eggcups is nice but doesn't fix the gnome-cups-manager problem, that's a different
software)

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Hi!

As this bug report is about three years old, are there any news on this?
I try to print to a CUPS server (running Ubuntu 7.04) on a password protected printer, but it does not ask me for username and password.
I can submit print jobs e.g. with evince, but they are just queued locally without any error message. Only when I open the printer properties, I see the status "Bereit: /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp failed" ("Bereit" means "Ready").

Ciao

Martin

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

This upstream bug report has a recent unfinished patch:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384940

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

We have changed the default print management system in Ubuntu from gnome-cups-manager to system-config-printer because g-c-m is no longer maintained. s-c-p seems to have an authentication feature; does that do what you need?

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:38:39PM -0000, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> We have changed the default print management system in Ubuntu from
> gnome-cups-manager to system-config-printer because g-c-m is no longer
> maintained. s-c-p seems to have an authentication feature; does that do
> what you need?

I could not find the authentication feature you mentioned within s-c-p. I
created a queue for an https (ipp) printer after symlinking http to https
within /usr/lib/cups/backend. The printer requires a username/password but
I was never prompted for one. Could you point me to where this feature is?

Ryan

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Ryan Lovett,
gnome-cups-manager has been removed since Ubuntu 8.10 and has been replaced by system-config-printer, therefore closing this task as invalid.
I'm getting a username/password prompt on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS or higher after setting Operation Policy to "Authenticated" in system-config-printer (System -> Administration -> Printing).
Feel free to reopen if you still have this problem in Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS or higher and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!