Re: [Sheflug] New HP Deskjet 3940 printer

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Collier wrote:
<snippety snip>
>>
>>> When I go to: http://localhost:631/printers
>>> I get asked for username and password at CUPS
>>> I'd tried various things that do not work.
>> It should just be your root account.
>>
> 
> The Cups password is different from the system or user password. I remember a 
> mention of this on the SuSE users mail group and it tells you how to sort it 
> out but I haven't found it as yet. Not sure if it's something todo with 
> lpprinter psword.
> 
> Peter C.
> 
Well, cups admin had me foxed for a bit in SuSE 10.0 but lppasswd is the
key and 'man lppasswd' one's friend.  You can set up a cups/lp
administrator using 'lppasswd -a <username>' and you'll be prompted for
a password.

However, it may be that SuSE have managed to select users from
/etc/passwd in the 10.2 install because I didn't need to use lppasswd
when I had to access cups recently.

Regards

L.


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