On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:16:29AM -0300, Thomas Beresford wrote: > I can't believe this but I finally found what was the problem. The problem > was the root password (and my regular user password too), because they had > special characters that for some reason didn't work inside firefox, although > these characters can be typed correctly (probably it's a encoding problem). > I changed the root password for another one that doesn't use special > characters and bingo, it worked. > > Anyway, I wish I could add a different user and password since I don't want > to change my current passwords, but lppasswd still doesn't work because of > the "permission denied" problem that I mentioned before. Do I really have to > use the same user/password of my linux system into CUPS?
Since using special characters is an important security feature especially for root, I would keep the characters and use a different method to configure printing. Try foomatic-GUI if you want to stick with cups, or ditch cups and go with lprng and either foomatic printfilters (with possibly foomatic-GUI) or apsfilter. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
