Re: password refused by cups on localhost:631 (fwd)
On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 16:13:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 December 2019 14:23:34 Brian wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, since about 6.04 of the ubuntu thread, its always popped up with
> the root line filled with "root", and about 15 dots that represents the
> missing root pw. I just change them both to me & my pw and it sorta
> works.
Ubuntu? You might have noticed we are talking about behaviour on Debian.
You'll have checked, of course. Well, perhaps not. It's easier to hark
back to some dim menory of a long forgotten distribution.
--
Brian.
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