On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 16:12, ben wrote: > On Sunday 10 February 2002 12:57 pm, tluxt wrote: > [snip] > > > > Have you done: > > adduser usrname lpadmin ;Adds the user "usrname" to the group "lpadmin" > > in > > ;the /etc/group file so usrname can admin CUPS. > > given that he can't login to cups admin with the root password, it seems that > should be properly investigated and resolved before adding any other user to > any other group. if no solution emerges, he'd be better off reinstalling cups > and going through the setup process with the current problem in mind. it's > really not in the system's interest to have a package running that doesn't > comply with the rules of operation to which it should adhere, especially when > root privileges are involved.
When I used kcontrol to setup my printer i ran it through sudo sudo kcontrol entered password setup printer, this worked great. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key can be found at http://www.monochromatic.net/yugami.gpg
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