chef-cups

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

Attributes

cups::default

Key	Type	Default	Description
['cups']['printers']	array	[]	List of printers to configure on the system. See example in the usage section below.
['cups']['systemgroups']	string	sys root	Defines authorized system-group users in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.
['cups']['share_printers']	array	['@LOCAL']	ACLs for printer access
['cups']['require_encryption']	boolean	false	Should cups require SSL/TLS for client communication? This requires both ['cups']['cert_file'] and ['cups']['key_file'] to be set.
['cups']['cert_file']	string	nil	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.
['cups']['key_file']	string	nil	The full path to the SSL key file to be used by cups.
['cups']['server_aliases']	array	[]	List of allowed domains for remote administration
['cups']['require_authentication']	boolean	false	Specifies whether authentication is required to access the CUPS website and printers.
['cups']['admin']['require_encryption']	boolean	false	Should cups require SSL/TLS for the administration pages
['cups']['admin']['auth_read']	boolean	false	Enable Authentification for the administration pages
['cups']['admin']['acl']	array	[]	List of hosts/networks that are allowed to access the administration pages

cups::default_printer

Key	Type	Default	Description
['cups']['default_printer']	string	nil	Sets the system-wide default printer.

Usage

cups::default

Include cups in your node's run_list:

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

SAMPLE format for printer entries:

"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.

Thirdparty

This cookbook includes airprint-generate script from tjfontaine, which is licended under MIT.

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 2015-2017, Biola University

Copyright 2017, Artem Sidorenko and contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.