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Re: CUPS authentication problem

On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:


a) must have an "auhtentication_authority" property bearing
value ";basic;" or no such property at all
b) must have a "passwd" property whose value is a traditional
unix crypt password.

Which is a tremendously bad idea since any local user can then crack that password.

The solution is to upgrade to cups that understands pam, or wait for Apple to do so, unless you don't care about the security gains Apple has made in 10.3.

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