tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390 Linux4All Linux4All 2011-01-25T15:50:21Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390:16351 Thomas Fischer 2011-01-25T13:07:44Z 2011-01-25T15:50:21Z frustrated public 2 Posted by: <span lj:user='t_fischer' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/'><b>t_fischer</b></a></span><br /><br /><p>Hello, I am currently using my Linux system in a Microsoft/Windows dominated environment. This means that even the printing service is accessible via the smb protocol only when using CUPS on my own machine.</p> <p>Using the Windows-based printing system requires me to authenticate using a user name and a password. This is achieved by having a line like<br /> <tt>DeviceURI smb://user:password/printer</tt><br /> in your <tt>/etc/cups/printers.conf</tt>. This means, my password is written in clear plain text in a configuration file on every Linux system I want to print from.</p> <p>How do I protect my Windows password? Is there some PAM magic available? Using hashes instead of plain text? As my Linux system uses its own login system, the local password does not match the Windows password.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=linux4all&ditemid=16351" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments