cups Cookbook

Installs the cups package, if needed, starts the cups service, and configures printers on target systems.

Attributes

cups::default

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['printers']</tt></td>
<td>array</td>
<td>List of printers to configure on the system. See example in the usage section below.</td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['systemgroups']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Defines authorized system-group users in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.</td>
<td><tt>sys root</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['share_printers']</tt></td>
<td>boolean</td>
<td>Should cups share printers?</td>
<td><tt>true</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['require_encryption']</tt></td>
<td>boolean</td>
<td>Should cups require SSL/TLS for client communication? This requires both <tt>['cups']['cert_file']</tt> and <tt>['cups']['key_file']</tt> to be set.</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['cert_file']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>The full path to the SSL certificate file to be used by cups. Note: if an intermediate certificate is required by the issuing certificate authority, the intermediate certificate must be appended to the server certificate file as cups does not support separate intermediate and certificate files.</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['key_file']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>The full path to the SSL key file to be used by cups.</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['server_aliases']</tt></td>
<td>array</td>
<td>List of allowed domains for remote administration</td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['require_authentication']</tt></td>
<td>boolean</td>
<td>Specifies whether authentication is required to access the CUPS website and printers.</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

cups::airprint

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['airprint_generate']['git_url']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>URL to the airprint file generator repo.</td>
<td><tt>https://github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate.git</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['airprint_generate']['git_revision']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Git repo tag/version to pull.</td>
<td><tt>master</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

cups::default_printer

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cups']['default_printer']</tt></td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Sets the system-wide default printer.</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Usage

cups::default

Include cups in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[cups]"
  ]
}

SAMPLE format for printer entries:
json
"cups": {
"printers": [
{
"printer1": {
"uri": "lpd://FQDN",
"desc": "HP LaserJet xx",
"model": "textonly.ppd", #textonly.ppd is set as the default by the recipe.
"location": "Front Office"
}
},
{
"printer2": {
"uri": "lpd://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
}
},
{
"printer3": {
"uri": "lpd://myprinter.mydomain"
}
}
]
}


Data bags

Set the attribute node['cups']['printer_bag'] to the name of your data bag.

Data bag entries use this format:

{
"id": "printer1",
"model": "textonly.ppd",
"uri": "lpd://FQDN",
"location": "Front Office",
"desc": "HP LaserJet xx"
}


cups::airprint

Configures CUPS to advertise printers via AirPrint.

cups::default_printer

Sets the system-wide default printer (via the node['cups']['default_printer'] attribute).

CAUTION -- in its current form, this will completely overwrite the /etc/cups/lpoptions file.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Copyright 2015, Biola University

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