Re: [opensuse] printer problem

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 21:17 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 18:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* 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


The command needs to be run as root. You can do this either by logging
in as root or simply use su to become root. The command is:

lppasswd -g sys -a some_admin_username

You will be asked to supply a password twice. Once this is setup you
will need to use this supplied user name and password. And the
some_admin_username can be anything you want it to be.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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