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Jeff Strunk
Asked: 2011-09-09 12:17:19 +0800 CST

How to configure cups to allow remote printing with authentication and local printing without?

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According to the cupsd.conf documentation, one should be able to "require authentication for remote access, but allow local access without authentication." There doesn't appear to be any other documentation on this subject.

I tried putting the following in my cupsd.conf:

<Location />
  # Restrict access to the server...
  Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
  Require valid-user
  Satisfy any
  Order allow,deny
</Location>

It doesn't work for me.

Has anyone gotten this to work? Is there an example cupsd.conf available with this configuration?

cups

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Add the following lines to you snippet:

    Allow from localhost
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Deny from all

    and change the Order line to

    Order deny,allow

    so it reads:

    <Location />
   # Restrict access to the server 'root' location...
   Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
   Allow from localhost
   Allow from 127.0.0.1
   Deny from all
   Require valid-user
   Satisfy any
   Order deny,allow
 </Location>

    Should this not be sufficient, add the same settings for the <Location /printers> and the </Location /admin>:

    <Location /printers>
   # Restrict access to the server's shared printers...
   Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
   Allow from localhost
   Allow from 127.0.0.1
   deny from all
   Require valid-user
   Satisfy any
   Order deny,allow
 </Location>
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