Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> 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.

Still looking...

  $ zless cupsys-common/changelog.Debian.gz
    ...
    CUPS SystemGroup is 'lpadmin'. You need to add users who are allowed
    to add/modify/remove printers/jobs/classes.


-- 
Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu