Ethan Benson wrote: > > 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 >
Good point... I was just being silly and following the CUPS documents. After reading your post, I just did: adduser monte lpadmin which works just fine ;) Thanks, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
