On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian"
<thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web
interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select
a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am
prompted for a username and a password.
[snip]
If you have a root account set it's user "root" and it's password
that
cups is asking for. If root account is not set (if you are using
sudo
only), try your user name and password.
Neither work. I tried them both already even though I didn't
expect either to work. root logins are disabled, and using
the user account and password will only get me root access, via
sudo, not via a cups authorization prompt :(
I guess I am going to have to figure out how to do this
via cli.
Thanks for taking a shot.
I believe (as in these old eyes have seen it happen -- but I can't
remember the exact circumstances) there is a configuration-time
option to set a userid that will have administrative control
over the Cups facility. All relevant configuration files are then
changed to belong to that user.
It may be that you can get to it by running
dpkg-reconfigure <something>
Anybody on this list have any suggestions for appropriate values of
<something>?
Rick
i believe what your looking for in <something> is cupsys. but thats
not
going to ask you for passwords or users or anything like that.....
just
tried it. take a look at this
http://www.debianadmin.com/setup-cups-common-unix-printing-system-server-and-client-in-debian.html#more-316
the area where it says
# Restrict access to the server…
<Location/>
Order allow,deny
Allow localhost
</Location>
I have, Allow All, and it doesnt ask for a password. or you can put
Allow <IP you want to give access to> then restart cups
/etc/init.d/cupsys restart
been awhile since i setup cups on my etch server but if i recall
correctly it should be what your looking for.
steve
It's not the sort of thing you want to give to just anybody. I'd
rather have *some* kind of restriction on who can use the cups web
interface
to mess with my printer configuration.
So figuring out how to do this "right" and do it the "debian way" is
worth the effort, I think.
Just a thought...
Rick
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