Hello, On May 23 16:02 Stefan Quandt wrote (excerpt):
Only FYI (of course not obvious for average users):
normal_user@host $ cancel -U root queue_name-job_number I can confim that canceling via command line as 'root' indeed just works (on localhost, without password).
But trying to cancel using the cups browser frontend (via "http://localhost:631/jobs?") I'm prompted for a username _and_ password.
There is a basic difference between command line tools and a web frontend how both can deal with user names. Off the top of my head I don't know the details but as far as I remember it is basically that a web frontend cannot know a user name (because your browser doesn't tell a web server which user runs your browser) - in contrast a command line tool knows which user it runs - so that a web frontend must ask for a user name. There are several reports/discussions/explanations on the CUPS forums (e.g. the CUPS mailing list) regarding this kind of issue. Perhaps there might be an issue that you are prompted for username and password because without authentication it would be sufficient if the CUPS web frontend only prompts for a username - but I am not an expert regarding HTTP authentication stuff. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org