cups is driving me crazy . . .

[dep]

. . . okay, it's a short trip, within walking distance.

anyway. i had cups working perfectly on my suse 8.2 installation when 
hard drive problems forced a reinstall from scratch, so i went to 9.1. 
now i can get the suse configurator to sort of set up cups, to the 
point of printing its own test page but nothing else. this is 
unsurprising; in my experience the yast tools have never worked for 
printers. so i tried what usually does work, which is using the cups 
web interface. only now, when it prompts me for a password for root, it 
will not accept the root password. i can su root in a terminal just 
fine, so it's not a password problem. and if i go to the configurator 
as root -- through, say, lynx in a terminal -- it *still* prompts me 
for a password and the root password is not what it wants. i gather 
that for some security reason cups has been tightened, but if i cannot 
get in it has been tightened a tad too much.

anybody kept up on what's been done with cups such that i can figure out 
the password so i can get in so i can configure my printer so i cna 
print?

thanky.
-- 
dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
				    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"