Kerberos support for smbspool

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Mon Apr 4 10:58:59 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:37 +0100, Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra wrote:
> Hi Simo,
> 
> I don't think that is possible without modifying CUPS.
> 
> The smbspool is a CUPS backend that it's executed by CUPS, all
> backends 
> receive the same parameters and the -k is not in that list.

It would not be that difficult to either:

a) make smbspool always try to auth through kerberos and fall back if
that does not work.

b) write a wrapper script that add the -k option before calling the real
smbspool, you may call it smbkrbspool and link it in cups/backend/

Simo.

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