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From: blarsen@spider.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Mac LaserWriter driver & password checking
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Date: 30 Aug 90 22:21:49 GMT
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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