Re: CUPS password?

[stan <stanb@awod.com>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:33:40PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:18, stan wrote:
> >>
> >>>I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go
> >>>to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username
> >>>password pair.
> >>>
> >>>Where do I look for this config?
> >>>
> >>/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> >>
> >
> >Well, I have looked there, but if it's there, I'm overlooking it.
> >
> >A clue, perhaps?
> >
> 
> 
> 
> In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>  there is probably a section about Security: one of the options is 
> SystemGroup
> that specifies a special unix group used under certain circumstances for 
> authorization. That group may be lpadmin, but by default could be sys 
> system or root.
> 
> There should also be a <Location /admin>...</Location> section which 
> describes the authorization required: Specifically you can restrict the 
> host from which to access and the AuthType/AuthClass.
> AuthType is probably Basic
> AuthClass could be Anonymous User Group or System
> 
> If the AuthClass is System than you need to specify the username and 
> unix password of a user belonging to the Systemgroup specified above.
> 

That makes sense, and also works.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me.

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