Re: printer setup

[Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:57 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > IIRC cups by default does not accept root for administration. 
> 
> Really?  Mine does.  When I open "Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.7"
> page at http://localhost:631, it states quite clearly:
> 
> If you are asked for a username and password, enter your login username
> and password or the "root" username and password.
> 
> Mark

Correct.  I did say "IIRC"--and could not find any backup when I went
back to check it later.   :)

Anyway, the lpadmin group bypasses any potential problems in using root
anyway, and he won't have to think twice about it later.


Kenward
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