Tim Waugh wrote:
cupsd.conf: ----------- | Allow from localhost | | AuthClass Basic | ---------------------- printers.conf: ------ | AllowUser the_user | -------------------- In addition to the current "certificates" method of avoiding the need to type in a password when submitting jobs, we could patch CUPS to use D-BUS for the same purpose.
This is exactly what d-bus was designed to do. Go for it. (If we ever get our cert story together, it would be great to support that as a method as well.)
--Chris