Bug#280718: Status?

[Ryan Lovett]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:53:58PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:39 -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > Why couldn't it contact a remote CUPS server running DBUS?
> 
> Because the DBus transport over TCP/IP doesn't have a working
> authentication implementation, so either you don't use it or random
> people on your network can send DBus messages as you.

Good to know, thanks. Do you know if there a wishlist bug I can monitor for
this issue?

In our particular case, the set of people who can print without
authentication is identical to the set of people who would have access to
ask CUPS how the print queues are doing.

Ryan