Its just not working?

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Russ Fineman wrote:
> > Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > > Ive tried to setup my hp3420, the driver seems to be included in cups cvs,
> > > but if i try to add a printer in the web interface all i get is:
> > > "client-error-not-authorized"
> > >
> > > on the command line logged in as root:
> > >
> > > lpadmin -p printer -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd
> > > lpadmin: add-printer (enable) failed: client-error-not-authorized
> > >
> > > Whats wrong?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Julius
> > Did you enter an lppasswd, then you can use your browser to log on to the
> > admin at localhost:631 to do the admin.
> >
> > The lack know about the password had me stump until someone on this news
> > group told me about it.
> > --
> > Russ
> 
> lppasswd: Unable to open passwd file: Permission denied
> 
> cups is installed with --prefix=/usr
> 
> this programm is just not working, how can there be a permission denied error while logged in as root?

Is CUPS configured with RunAsUser ?
What are permissions for the lppasswd program and the digest password
file?
I recently read in this NG that ther may be a bug in the installation
script.

Helge