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Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)



On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 13:17:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >     It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a
> > normal user to the lpadmin group.  Then by authenticating as that user
> > you can administer through the web interface.
> >
> >     hi Roberto,
> >     alas, I already did that, without success.
> >
> When it pops up the requester, did you change it from the default root to 
> your name you've added to lpadmin and your passwd?  That works here.

I wish I could have confidence in your interpretation of what you see.
The pop-up has two blank fields. Why you maintain the default user is
"root" and it needs to be changed is beyond me.

-- 
Brian.


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