blarsen@spider.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen) (08/31/90)
In chapter 14 of Inside AppleTalk ('Print Spooling Architecture'),
I find a very interesting description of a 'User authentication
dialog' (p. 14-12).
According to the description, a LaserWriter driver should start a print
job by sending the query:
%%?BeginQuery: rUaSpooler
false = flush
%%?EndQuery true
which would be answered with 'true' by a spooler.
The driver then should go on and check for the user authentication
method that should be used, with 'NoUserLogin' being the default
answer.
Now my question: Does the Macintosh LaserWriter driver perform such
a procedure? In case it does: How does it respond it the spooler returns
the authentication method 'CleartxtPasswd'?
If the bugger really pops up a dialog window and requests a password,
I'll go hysterical with joy. But I dare not even hope so...
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Bjorn Larsen University of Oslo, Norway
Bjorn.Larsen@usit.uio.no