cups-pk-helper

cups-pk-helper is a PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained privileges.

For example, it's possible to let users enable/disable printers without requiring a password, while still requiring a password for editing printer settings.

To make it easy to integrate cups-pk-helper in system-config-printer, the D-Bus API is based to a large extent on the pycups one.

Development

The development occurs in freedesktop.org's GitLab, in the cups-pk-helper repository. Issues and feature requests should be reported in GitLab.

Translations should be uploaded to Transifex.

Download

Tarballs can be found at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/

• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.7.tar.xz
  • Use meson build system (Marek)
  • Remove code using CUPS 1.5 and lower (Marek)
  • Remove calls to deprecated g_type_init() (Marek)
  • Move D-Bus conf file to $(datadir)/dbus-1/system.d (worldofpeace)
  • Don't compare signed and unsigned int (Guido Günther)
  • Add default statements to silence compiler warnings (Guido Günther)
  • Remove obsolete [encoding: UTF-8] from POTFILES.in (Marek)
  • Add Code of Conduct (Marek)
  • Update README and HACKING files (Marek)
  • New/updated translations: af, ast, cs, et, fi, fur, he, hr, kk, lt, si, tr
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6.tar.xz
  • Enable UTF-8 chars in names and texts (Marek)
  • Introduce CPH_PATH_MAX (Pino Toscano)
  • New/updated translations: ca, cs, da, de, en, en_GB, gl, ia, kk, ko, oc, pt, ru, sk, sr
  • Add function for printer renaming (Martin Hatina)
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.5.tar.xz
  • Revert "Be stricter when validating printer names" (Vincent).
  • New/updated translations: cs, eo, es, eu, fr, gl, hr, hu, ia, id, it, pl, sr, sv, uk.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.4.tar.xz
  • Fix detection of CUPS version (Jürg Billeter, Vincent)
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.3.tar.xz
  • Fix security flaw in cupsGetFile/cupsPutFile wrappers (CVE-2012-4510) (Vincent)
  • Escape printer/class names before putting them in URIs (Vincent)
  • Be stricter when validating printer names (Vincent)
  • Fix build with CUPS >= 1.6 (Jiri Popelka)
  • New/updated translations: de, es, fi, ka, lv, pt_BR, sl, tr, zh_CN.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.2.tar.xz
  • Add PrinterAddOption D-Bus method. (Marek Kasik)
  • Set requesting-user-name tag in requests. (Marek Kasik)
  • Code cleanups. (Vincent)
  • Build fixes and improvements. (Vincent, Marek Kasik)
  • New/updated translations: ja, nl, sk, zh_TW.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.1.tar.bz2
  • Do not pass ppd file if empty when adding a printer. (Tim Waugh)
  • Accept NULL for ppd file as valid when adding a printer. (Vincent)
  • Allow inactive/any users to authenticate. (Marek Kasik)
  • New/udpated translations: gl, it, ko, zh_TW.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.0.tar.bz2
  • Port to GDBus. (Vincent)
  • Stop using deprecated polkit API. (Vincent)
  • Drop gthread handling. (Vincent)
  • Add org.freedesktop.DBus.Deprecated annotation to ?JobCancel. (Vincent)
  • Code cleanups. (Vincent)
  • Build system improvements. (Vincent)
  • New/udpated translations: hu.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.1.3.tar.bz2
  • Allow file request with NULL filename, to add raw printers. (Marek Kašík)
  • Modernize build system a bit. (Vincent)
  • New/udpated translations: eo, id, pl, sl, uk.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.1.2.tar.bz2
  • Add all-edit action to enable authenticating only once in tools (Marek Kašík)
  • Build system improvements. (Vincent)
  • New/udpated translations: fr, hu, it, pl, tr, uk.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.1.1.tar.bz2
  • Make the include/exclude schemes work when getting devices with cups 1.4 (Dominique Leuenberger)
  • Fix confusion between IPP and HTTP status when getting/putting a file (Vincent)
  • Clarify a string. (Vincent)
  • Add some basic documentation. (Vincent)
  • Build system improvements. (Vincent)
  • First translations: cz (Mrs Jenkins), de (Andre Klapper), fr (Vincent).
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.1.0.tar.bz2
  • Port to PolicyKit 1. (Marek Kasik, Vincent)
  • Add DevicesGet method. (Marek Kasik, Vincent)
  • Add JobCancelPurge method. (Marek Kasik)
  • Support adding printer without device URI. (Tim Waugh)
  • Add check for string length in validity checks. (Vincent)
  • Improve performance of job-related methods. (Marek Kasik)
  • Make sure to correctly handle all CUPS replies. (Vincent)
  • Avoid timeout on job-related methods for invalid jobs. (Vincent)
  • Always return a non-empty error string in case of failures. (Vincent)
  • Remove GTK+/GIO requirements. (Vincent)
  • Minor fixes and improvements in tests. (Vincent)
  • Code cleanups. (Vincent)
  • Build system improvements. (Vincent)
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.0.4.tar.bz2
  • Remove bare send_interface lines in the DBus rules.
  • Add job related functions. (Marek Kasik)
  • Reconnect to the cups server if necessary. (Marek Kasik)
  • Accept file: URI as local. (Marek Kasik)
  • Change default policy for job-edit to yes (jobs are owned by the user).
  • Add more checks for the new job-related functions.
  • Code cleanups.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.0.3.tar.bz2
  • Make PrinterAddOptionDefault work for options with more than one value.
  • Implement PrinterSetUsersAllowed/PrinterSetUsersDenied methods.
  • Implement ServerGetSettings/ServerSetSettings methods.
  • Implement ClassAddPrinter/ClassDeletePrinter/ClassDelete methods.
  • Add more fine-grained policies, including local vs remote printers.
  • Fix major bug that made it impossible to change many settings.
  • Implement FileGet/FilePut methods.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.0.2.tar.bz2
  • Make the AcceptJobs method work.
  • Add checks to arguments passed over dbus, for more security.
• http://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.0.1.tar.bz2
  • Initial release.