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  1. Bug #132791
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 132791

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

Well, GNOME seems not to know how to prompt for a password anyway, yet.
As it was discovered in bug #283811.

But then, it sounds like the cache is not invalidated on error (else I suppose it would not retry so much as to deactivate password a while on the server).

As far I could tell, this cache is CUPS stuff, not Samba backend stuff.
Like http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2268+P0+S0+C0+I0+E0+M20+Q2268 says:
BACKENDS

Backends will continue to get the authentication information from the cache file (aNNNNN in the spool directory, where NNNNN is the job ID). The format of this file is one authentication value per line, with each value Base64-encoded.

When the authentication fails, backends can send an "ATTR: auth-info-required=..." message to stderr to reconfigure the auth-info-required attribute on the queue, and then exit with code 2 to indicate that authentication is required.

I believe this is how, cache is supposed to be invalidated, and a new password asked.

So if things goes correctly, Justin should be affected by bug #283811, if he is not... then that's looks like a bug to me.
Or maybe I spend to much time looking bug #283811 and not seeing things as they are. ;-)