Re: [opensuse] printer problem

* Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-03-07 18:22]:
On Monday 02 April 2007 21:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-02-07 20:32]:
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I have read man lppasswd but I don't know what to do next. It would
appear from the error message that the username is doug, but it says
on localhost, and the man lppasswd refers to cups, not localhost, or
am I still missing something?

yes, you are missing something. From 'man lppasswd':

DESCRIPTION
lppasswd adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest
password file, passwd.md5. When run by a normal user, lppasswd
will prompt for the old and new passwords. When run by the
super-user, lppasswd can add new accounts (-a username), change
existing accounts (username), or delete accounts (-x username)
in the digest password file. Digest usernames do not have to
match local UNIX user‐ names.

[....] also

SEE ALSO
lp(1), lpr(1),
http://localhost:631/help


If I go to KJobViewer, I can delete everything queued but KDE Print
System and KDE Print Test, which are owned by root. If I could find
those files in a directory (where is it and what's it called?) I might
be able to su and delete them also, and then maybe the system might
work, I don't know.

did you try KJobViewer as root ?? Root would own root's jobs.

or search the opensuse list archives. It has been mentioned/described
*many* times.

not tried, not interested ????

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