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Say you want to use some printers via IPP, but these require authentication with a user account. You could use this hint which was published a few days ago, and install the printer directly using an address like this: You could also do this in Tiger by holding the Option key while pressing Add. However, there are two fundamental problems with this approach. First, these printers can be used by every user on the machine, so adding printers like this only makes sense on single-user machines. Second, the account data is written to /etc/cups/printers.conf, i.e. this file contains your password in clear text (this file is only readable by administrators, though).
Hold for Authentication Issue on Mac Mac will not print after password change / Held for authentication.
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite After being able to print from my MacBook Air, I am now receiving the printer message 'printer in use' I have checked the printer and it.
Fortunately, OS X 10.5 actually supports IPP printing with authentication, but Apple somehow managed to obfuscate this feature. Read on to see how to use it. Here's how to use IPP printing with authentication:
In case you don't already know, there is a bug in Leopard such that you absolutely have to log in with an administrative account to add printers (identification with the lock button is not enough if you work with a non-administrative account). So login as an admin first.
Click the plus sign in the Print & Fax System Preferences panel to show the Add Printer dialog. When it appears, choose IP in the toolbar, and then select Internet Printing Protocol - IPP as the protocol. Enter the server address of your CUPS server (don't try to add any account information here), the name of the printer queue, and then add the printer.
Now send a print job to the printer, and you will see that, well, it doesn't work, since you didn't have to specify any account information so far.
Go back to the Print & Fax pane in System Preferences. Double-click on the printer you just send the print job to. You see now that the printer is inactive and the print job was halted -- due to missing identification.
Continue the print job, and suddenly, an identification dialog will pop up. Why didn't it pop up earlier? Why do we have to explicitly continue the print job? Only Apple knows. But finally, you can enter your account information and also save it in your keychain.
You should also take a look into /etc/cups/printers.conf -- there is no password there, but notice the line which reads: Evidently this line does the trick. Therefore, if you're comfortable with editing configuration files directly, adding new printers is a simple copy and paste job. By the way, the same should work with SMB printing.
After adding printer in MacBook Pro, users can’t print page. When they try to print, print job is held with the following status:- On hold (authentication required): Solution 1: Enter users ID and password
Click the Resume button.
Enter your user id and password in the authentication window.