Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

* Thomas Beresford <tom.beresford@gmail.com> [070727 22:49]:
>    Hello,
> 
>    I tried to setup my HP PSC 1315 printer today on my Debian Etch running
>    CUPS 1.2.12. So I used hp-setup to configure my printer and it was all
>    right, but when I tried to configure its parameters at the CUPS admin
>    page, it asked for a user/password, and I used my root username/password
>    but it didn't work for my surprise. 

"...my my root username/password..." ???  The username of root is "root".

On my system, this works:

    username:  root
    password:  the_password_of_root