CUPS interaction (authentication with LIBCUPS)

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Mon Jun 6 14:22:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 07:03 -0700, Michael R Sweet wrote:

> What we need is a general proxy-authentication method which works
> end-to-end for multiple protocols, not just a localized solution
> for SAMBA + Kerberos.

in this case your only bet could be to support winbind with ntlm_auth
program or something like that.

> FWIW, it looks like Kerberos will play a part in any solution we
> come up with, but first we need to kerberize CUPS and IPP...

what about providing external auth methods like squid does?, o modules
like apache does (I prefer the first so that I can hook up any script I
like) ?

Simo.

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