Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed
On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 07:11:55 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>
> On 8/26/21 5:53 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
> > 2) Install cups.
> * cups was not installed by default. The Brother installer did flag that
> first off, easily corrected
A print queue was installed by Sun 22 Aug 2021 05:44:11 AM PDT. So cups
was present when you first posted.
> > 3) Visit http://localhost:631/ in a GUI web browser. Make sure Javascript
> > is allowed.
> >
> > 4) At some point, when you try to do stuff to the printers in the browser,
> > you will be prompted for a username and password, using HTTP basic
> > authentication. When this occurs, you should login as root, using
> > root's password.
>
> BINGO: I was not using root
That's not correct. Your user was not given root priviledges is the
correct conclusiom. You, root and the user are not the same entities.
What does "I" refer to?
A responsible administrator does not hand out administrator priviledges
to anyone who comes along. Put the user into the lpadmin group.
Nobody should be logging into the web interface as root.
Glad you got it sorted, though.
(Incidentally, why you have any need for the Brother drivers is beyond
me).
--
Brian.
>
> >
> > 5) If you screwed up and logged in as yourself, restart the web browser
> > so that you can get the HTTP basic authentication dialog box again. Go
> > to step 4.
> >
> > 6) Once the printer is set up via the browser, you should be able to see
> > it and print to it from the command line. "lpstat -t" to see all of
> > the printers and their status. "lp" or "lpr" to print a text file.
> $ lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> no system default destination
> device for MFCL3770CDW: dnssd://Brother%20MFC-L3770CDW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-b4220033103b
> MFCL3770CDW accepting requests since Sun 22 Aug 2021 05:44:11 AM PDT
> printer MFCL3770CDW is idle. enabled since Sun 22 Aug 2021 05:44:11 AM PDT
> >
> > Any variants on this procedure will require knowledge that I don't
> > personally possess. E.g. if for some reason you refuse to set a root
> > password, then you may have to set up a printer-admin account which
> > has the appropriate privileges, and a password, and then use that
> > instead of root. I don't know what those privs would be.
> >
> Summary:
>
> I removed my browser cookie for "localhost"
>
> restarted the browser
>
> when CUPS requested a password I used "root"
>
> I am now able to add printers and edit all options
>
> Thanks to all for the assistance and Education
>
>
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