[indiana-discuss] 2008.05 upgrade to snv_90 causing authentication issues

[Euan Thoms]

OK, some more info on the CUPS authentication issue, I set logging to debug and the error_log output is below. It looks like the username and password entered in the web admin gui is not being passed to the cups deamon, as if blank data is passed instead.

D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi started - PID = 2236
I [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=2236)
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdSendCommand: 9 file=12
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] admin.cgi started...
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] http=8074120
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] op="config-server"...
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] DefaultAuthType Basic
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdReadClient: 10 PUT /admin/conf/cupsd.conf HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdIsAuthorized: username=""
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdSendError: 10 code=401 (Unauthorized)
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdSendHeader: WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS"
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 10
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] PID 2236 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi) exited with no errors.
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] [CGI] cgi_passwd(prompt="Password for lp on localhost? ") called!
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdSendError: 9 code=401 (Unauthorized)
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdSendHeader: WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS"
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:17 -0800] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:20 -0800] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost:631 (IPv4)
D [10/Jun/2008:10:55:20 -0800] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /admin HTTP/1.1
E [10/Jun/2008:10:55:20 -0800] cupsdAuthorize: Empty Basic password!
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