Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * 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
 
I'm unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the
'lpadmin' group, and you can use your regular user password for the cups
admin web pages.

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu