[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#570460: web admin authentication failing

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-3
Severity: normal


It's non-obvious from the authentication dialog but you can authenticate
only locally (because cups wants to know the uid of the remote end of
the socket) and only as the user who has connected to the cups service.

That is, if you just run a web browser as yourself and connect to the
local cups server then you can only uthenticate as yourself, and you can
only manage cups if you have added yourself in the lpadmin group.

If you connect to remote cups you cannot authenticate in the default
setup. A long time ago it would suffice to give root password.

The user experience is generally unified with that of sudo.


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