[Solved] Re: what user and password for cups
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19 -0300, "Tiago Saboga" <tiagosaboga@gmail.com>
wrote:
> whollygoat@letterboxes.org writes:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian"
> > <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 13 Jun 2009, gcrimp@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web
> >> >> interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select
> >> >> a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am
> >> >> prompted for a username and a password.
> >> >>
> >> > [snip]
> >>
> >> If you have a root account set it's user "root" and it's password that
> >> cups is asking for. If root account is not set (if you are using sudo
> >> only), try your user name and password.
> >>
> >
> > Neither work. I tried them both already even though I didn't
> > expect either to work. root logins are disabled, and using
> > the user account and password will only get me root access, via
> > sudo, not via a cups authorization prompt :(
>
> What about adding your user to the group lpadmin? I found [1] as the
> second link when googling for "debian cups password".
>
That worked. I found the same solution on the cups.org site.
Thanks all
> Tiago Saboga.
>
> [1] - http://www.debianhelp.org/node/9152#comment-32290
>
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