[X2go-dev] cups-x2go for multiple X2Go Servers

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 05:06 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 04:10 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Hello, all.  I'm stumbling through how to have a central cups server
> > provide cups-x2go printing for multiple X2Go Servers.  It seems the
> > cups-x2go backend looks to the cups-x2go.conf file to specify the X2Go
> > Server and only accommodates a single server.  We want it to service
> > hundreds or more.
> > 
> > I see that the cups-x2go backend takes "cups-x2go job-id user title
> > copies options [file]" as arguments.  My current endeavor is to query
> > the sessions database for the user to find the server but that presents
> > the problem of when a user may have sessions on multiple servers.  Is
> > there any way to pass (even by hacking the code) the hostname of the
> > originating X2Go Server as an argument? That would eliminate the need
> > for the database call and make it more foolproof.  Thanks - John
> > 
> > PS - it looks like I've been able to move the x2gocleansessions
> > processing to a central process for cleaning up hundreds of X2GoServers
> > in a VServer 1-to-1 environment.  As soon as I steer clear, I'll post
> > the patches and documentation - John
> <snip>
> To create passwordless database login, we can use a .pgpass file but
> what user will need this file when run from cups-x2go? Is it the cups
> user? Thanks - John
<snip>
A bit of debugging shows that it is root.  Almost there - John