Lo, on Thursday, January 11, Monte Milanuk did write: > 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!!
See Debian bug #80134; they've apparently already fixed this for the version now in woody, though I haven't tried it myself. Richard
