On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > * Thomas Beresford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070727 22:49]:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I tried to setup my HP PSC 1315 printer today on my Debian Etch running
> > > CUPS 1.2.12. So I used hp-setup to configure my printer and it was all
> > > right, but when I tried to configure its parameters at the CUPS admin
> > > page, it asked for a user/password, and I used my root
> > > username/password
> > > but it didn't work for my surprise.
> >
> > "...my my root username/password..." ??? The username of root is "root".
> >
> > On my system, this works:
> >
> > username: root
> > password: the_password_of_root
>
> I'm unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the
> 'lpadmin' group, and you can use your regular user password for the cups
> admin web pages.
Still looking...
$ zless cupsys-common/changelog.Debian.gz
...
CUPS SystemGroup is 'lpadmin'. You need to add users who are allowed
to add/modify/remove printers/jobs/classes.
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