Comment 18 for bug 879625

Unfortunately, I have been unable to confirm that this patch, and indeed that the package currently in proposed, actually fixes the problem.

I just built a fresh Oneiric machine, patched it, then installed cups, cups-clients and cups-bsd from oneiric-proposed.

After that, I tried adding a printer via the web interface (http://localhost:631), which fails. I was able to add a printer via the GUI, but when I attempt to print a test page using the printer GUI, that does not prompt me for authentication information, and then the job fails.

When trying to print from, say, Firefox, things still fail.

Next up, I will try downgrading CUPS as per Duck Tayp.

FYI, in our case, authentication is "basic", between two cups servers. No digest or anything else.