The sanitization of the device URI (not showing username and/or password in log files or other places where device URIs show up for mortal users to see) is in fact a *feature* that was introduced some time ago (it was different before), in order to increase security.
Chances are pretty low that you will get acceptance at CUPS.org to revert that again. Security is low in any case when printing to an smb://-connected printer that needs authentication, but there is not much CUPS can do about that. -- username for smb printer is not shown on printer properties https://launchpad.net/bugs/8125 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
