cups usually does not require authentication when talking to a local printer, it uses the socket cookie. This is not related to ConsoleKit at all; if cups is misbehaving, please report a bug against cups.

Thanks,

Martin

Excuse me but the LibreOffice has this error nevertheless.
When both the network printer and CUPS configured and worked on other computer and if somebody wish print some documents from any applications authentication is needed. Before printing applications should open the necessary window so that users have possibility to enter one's name and password. OpenOffice knew to make it. Unfortunately, we guess this source code was erased from LibreOffice when this project was forked from OepOffice.org.

I'm unsure if this report was filed against the right component, feel free to reassign. The issue is real, though.

The problem arises when printing to a network printer, e.g. over IPP, that requires a username/password combination. We have such printers in our enterprise environment. They are configured in my local CUPS printers.conf with the "AuthInfoRequired username,password" option.

This works fine with Gnome programs and Firefox, but LibreOffice doesn't request any credentials from the user and printing fails.

Is this a duplicate of bug #48414?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is this a duplicate of bug #48414?

I think so. My understanding of the original report is:

 * There is no way to authenticate when printing using CUPS on the network [to a printer with AuthInfoRequired username,password in its printers.conf entry]

 * Whereas, in OpenOffice.org 1.2, there is a pop-up window requesting authentication [when attempting to print to such a printer]

*** Bug 48414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Yes, it's the same issue. For example Evince, Firefox and OpenOffice will have an authentication popup, LibreOffice lacks this functionality which makes the printing fail.

We do set a password handler via cupsSetPasswordCB which I imagine is what should then get called under these circumstances, but it doesn't work for me either while it does in evince.

Odd

Apparently we need to search for auth-info-required in the cups attributes and set auto-info on the job. afaik we never did this and either OOo 1.2 doesn't/didnt work, or worked for some unrelated reason

Created attachment 104625 [details] [review]
something along these line, if I can figure out the right way to transmit the username+password to cups

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4289c346de432cc94f05aab78a9464350334b11f

Adolfo, Caolán, *

Setting back to NEW. I could be wrong butI don't believe the commit listed (from bug 84757) is actually against this CUPS authentication issue--although it was annotated such in gerrit review, removed the whiteboard notation.

Stuart