Trouble adding cups users

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Andrew Witte wrote:

> After installing cups (from source, on debian/testing running a 2.6
> kernel) I tried to run 'lppasswd -g sys -a root' (as root) to add the root
> user, and got:
> 
> # lppasswd -g sys -a root
> Enter password:
> Enter password again:
> lppasswd: Unable to open passwd file: Permission denied
> 
> The file /etc/cups/passwd.md5 does not exist. Touching this file before
> running lppasswd does not help.

What are the permissions and ownership of "/etc/cups/"? Give us
the output of

  ls -la /etc/cups

What are the "RunAsUser" and the "User" settings in cupsd.conf?

Cheers,
Kurt