cups is driving me crazy . . .

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:09, dep wrote:
> quoth Tom Wilson:
> 
> | I'm using 9.1 myself and printing via a yast setup is fine.  My
> | printers are networked via hp jetdirect boxes.  Don't know if that
> | makes a difference vs a local printer setup or anything else.
> 
> can't imagine that it would. it just won't print worth a toot here, 
> alas.
> 
> | I also heard that you can use lppasswd to set the password to manage
> | cups/printing in suse.  I haven't tried it myself as yast worked
> | fine.
> 
> i just did this and it seemed to take, but it threw an odd error:
> 
> lppasswd: user "root" and group "sys" do not exist.
> 
> any idea what in the world *that* would be about?

I just tried this and I was able to access cups and add printers via web
interface.

as root:
lppasswd -g sys -a root

adds group sys and user root to cups password file.  

Tom Wilson 
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