/var/log/cups/error_log filled with "cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided"
Issue
Last night /var/log/cups/error_log grew to 16GB. It was filled with millions of entries like
D [<timestamp>] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
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