On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used > links to browse the documentation in > /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian. It said that cups was almost > setup, but due to a bug in adduser, it hadn't added root to the > necessary group lpadmin yet, and I had to do it manually. I checked the > manpage for adduser, and it says that when adduser is called w/ two > non-option parameters, it will try to add the first paramater (username) > to the second (group name). So I tried the following: > > ishamael:/# adduser root lpadmin > adduser: The user `root' doesn't exist. > ishamael:/# > > Now it seems odd that 'root' doesn't exist, especially since I'm trying > to do this as root!!
adduser gets confused about root for some reason. why do you need to add root to this group? root can read/write anything anyway so there really isn't much of a reason to... if there is though: gpasswd -a root lpadmin -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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