Description of problem: I have a Fedora 17 print server and roughly 100 Fedora 17 desktops in a school with roughly 1000 users. Only members of the "allstaff" group are allowed to print, but that doesn't stop some students from trying. When a student attempts to print a job, /var/log/cups/error_log fills with: I [05/Nov/2012:10:17:42 +0200] Denying user "student" access to printer "JSR"... E [05/Nov/2012:10:17:42 +0200] Returning IPP client-error-not-authorized for Create-Job (ipp://10.10.0.1:631/printers/JSR) from 10.10.100.34 I [05/Nov/2012:10:17:42 +0200] Denying user "student" access to printer "JSR"... E [05/Nov/2012:10:17:42 +0200] Returning IPP client-error-not-authorized for Create-Job (ipp://10.10.0.1:631/printers/JSR) from 10.10.100.34 and /var/log/cups/access_log fills with: 10.10.100.34 - - [05/Nov/2012:10:17:18 +0200] "POST /printers/JSR HTTP/1.1" 200 613 Create-Job client-error-not-authorized 10.10.100.34 - - [05/Nov/2012:10:17:18 +0200] "POST /printers/JSR HTTP/1.1" 200 613 Create-Job client-error-not-authorized After a few hours, the root partition on the print server (which is only about 4GB) fills with the log messages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.5.4-13.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a printer on a separate cups server with permissions restricting who can print 2. Attempt to print using a user who does *not* have permission to print Actual results: Client continuously tries to print, while server continuously refuses the job. Server load jumps through the roof, and the hard drive fills with log messages. Expected results: Client accepts that they can print and stops harassing the server. Please let me know if you need any of the logs or the configuration files for either the server or the clients. Additional info:
Looks like this is fixed by the patch for STR #4190.
cups-1.5.4-11.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14508/cups-1.5.4-11.fc17
Could you give cups-1.5.4-11.fc17 a go please? The change is on the client side, and those jobs should now fail rather than retry.
Package cups-1.5.4-11.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-1.5.4-11.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14508/cups-1.5.4-11.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
(In reply to comment #3) > Could you give cups-1.5.4-11.fc17 a go please? The change is on the client > side, and those jobs should now fail rather than retry. This works perfectly!!!! I've just pushed it out to all of our workstations. Thank you so much for the quick fix!
cups-1.5.4-14.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15936/cups-1.5.4-14.fc18
cups-1.5.4-11.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
cups-1.5.4-14.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.