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Re: Problem Adding A Printer To KDE



On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:32:13PM +0100, P. de Vicente wrote:
> El Lun 19 Nov 2001 18:07, Robert Tilley escribió:

> > A dialog pops up saying "The access to the requested resource on the
> > CUPS server running on localhost (port 631) requires a password."  The
> > username field field contains my logged in username.  When I enter my
> > login password it dialog comes back with the same response, so that's
> > not right.
>  I think that you need to enter root and its password, or run the CUPS
>  Control Center from root. In the latter case it will not ask you ant
>  password.

You can set password and authentication in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, and by
default all users wishing to access the CUPS system must be in the
'lpadmin' group. Your standard login password is used IIRC.



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