Re: what user and password for cups

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Celejar wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19:52 -0400
Rick Thomas <rbthoma...@pobox.com> 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.

There's a great deal of seemingly relevant documentation in the CUPS
online help under Getting Started / Managing Operation Policies.  Based
on a very brief perusal of the docs and my pretty bog-standard
cupsd.conf, I'd suggest adding your user to the lpadmin group and
seeing if that helps.

For me, this always worked. Add a user to the lpadmin group and use that user to do the printeradmin. Root accounts might work, but might also be disabled somehow. When this is done, point your browser to http://your-machine:631/. I find the webconfig of cups quite manageable, and it even allows you to set such things as sharing your printers on the net and showing shared printers (when your firewall allows, of course)

Sjoerd

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