Bug#868283: cups-browsed ignores "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 09:40:11 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> >But I dug a hole for myself.
> >
> >4. Reinstall stretch's cups-browsed (no change in cupsd.conf) to go back
> >   to 2. "OpPolicy authenticated" is what I get!
> >
> >5. Remove "DefaultPolicy authenticated" from cupsd.conf. Back to 1. Not
> >   at all! It's still "DefaultPolicy authenticated".
> >
> >Colour me perplexed (or inept).
> 
> I guess that some information is taken from the files in /var/cache/cups and
> that these cache files are not correctly updated ...

cups-browsed now saves a copy of the remote printer's PPD in
/var/cache/cups. "Operation Policy" is one of the options which
can set there using the web interface (say).

I wonder whether we really have a bug here if this is the way
it is designed to work now.

Regards,

Brian.