cups is driving me crazy . . .

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.

Nor does RH/Fedora.

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