Re: [cups-devel] auth pass through

Michael Sweet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.cups.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
How do you communicate with the printer?

There is an interface for proxy authentication that is already used by the SMB and IPP backends.


> On Dec 14, 2015, at 7:07 AM, Miroslaw Dobzrnaksi-Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I have to communicate with a special printer which insists on user
> authentication (basic) against its own configuration.
> 
> That is, it expects CUPS to collect the credentials (name, password) and
> pass it to the printer without further interpreting them.
> 
> 
> 
> How can I tell CUPS to collect the credentials and pass them to the backend,
> together with the document to process?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Miroslaw
> 
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