Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:16:29AM -0300, Thomas Beresford wrote:
> I can't believe this but I finally found what was the problem. The problem
> was the root password (and my regular user password too), because they had
> special characters that for some reason didn't work inside firefox, although
> these characters can be typed correctly (probably it's a encoding problem).
> I changed the root password for another one that doesn't use special
> characters and bingo, it worked.
>
> Anyway, I wish I could add a different user and password since I don't want
> to change my current passwords, but lppasswd still doesn't work because of
> the "permission denied" problem that I mentioned before. Do I really have to
> use the same user/password of my linux system into CUPS?
Since using special characters is an important security feature
especially for root, I would keep the characters and use a different
method to configure printing. Try foomatic-GUI if you want to stick
with cups, or ditch cups and go with lprng and either foomatic
printfilters (with possibly foomatic-GUI) or apsfilter.
Doug.
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