Re: Inability to configure printer
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:01:13 -0500
Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> wrote:
> At this point I looked at the lppasswd help page
> (http://localhost:631/help/man-lppasswd.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages&QUERY=).
> It gave me information on how to create a user and password from the
> command line. So I ran lppasswd -a [my user name] and when asked
> entered a password. The command returned "Unable to open the
> password file: Permission denied".
Did you try this as root?
> I may say that after upwards of 200 posts on the list about making it
> possible for novices to use Linux, if not necessarily Debian,
> primarily by improving the documentation, this kind of problem -- and
> the others I mentioned in two other posts I made to the list earlier
> this afternoon -- would not inspire confidence in Linux from a novice.
Configuration differences between versions do happen on *every* OS. You
should have a look in the /usr/share/doc/package_name directory, first
the README.Debian file (if present) and then the others. Such changes
are usually documented.
Regards,
Andrei
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