Trouble adding cups users

[Andrew Witte]

While collecting the information, I discovered the problem: lppasswd was installed setuid lp, not root, and therfore could not access the passwd file.

pipitas wrote:
> 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