cups is driving me crazy . . .

[Ken Moffat]

dep wrote:

>. . . 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.
>  
>

Must be a Suse thing; debian 3 (sid) has no such requirement.

-- 
ken