On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 16:13:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 14:23:34 Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 03 Dec 2019 at 13:17:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 December 2019 11:37:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > It has a been a while, but my recollection is that you add a > > > > normal user to the lpadmin group. Then by authenticating as that > > > > user you can administer through the web interface. > > > > > > > > hi Roberto, > > > > alas, I already did that, without success. > > > > > > When it pops up the requester, did you change it from the default > > > root to your name you've added to lpadmin and your passwd? That > > > works here. > > > > I wish I could have confidence in your interpretation of what you see. > > The pop-up has two blank fields. Why you maintain the default user is > > "root" and it needs to be changed is beyond me. > > Well, since about 6.04 of the ubuntu thread, its always popped up with > the root line filled with "root", and about 15 dots that represents the > missing root pw. I just change them both to me & my pw and it sorta > works.
Ubuntu? You might have noticed we are talking about behaviour on Debian. You'll have checked, of course. Well, perhaps not. It's easier to hark back to some dim menory of a long forgotten distribution. -- Brian.
