passwd.md5 missing

[johnny]

I don't know possessed me to respond to this earlier, but, it turns out
that <lppasswd -a user> STILL won't create the password.md5 file.

Mandrake Linux 10.1, 2.6 kernel, cups 1.1.21

 On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:08:16 -0500, johnny wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 21:00:07 -0500, nv wrote:
> 
>> johnny wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10.1. I keep getting a
>>> client-error-not-authorized message from lpadmin. My research indicates
>>> that I need to add users to the passwd.md5 file using lppasswd. That file
>>> (passwd.md5) is nowhere on my PC. I tried uninstalling and re-installing
>>> the cups rpm packages but the file is still missing. So, I tried using the
>>> latest cvs. That file is STILL missing. I have no clue as to why this is
>>> happening. Google is no help. I would assume that when CUPS is installed
>>> it would automatically create the password file with at least root as an
>>> authorized user. CUPS admin never prompts for a password also. What's the
>>> deal? I never had this problem with earlier versions of Mandrake. I even
>>> tried a fresh install of ML 10.1.
>> 
>> Try,. creates passwd.md5 
>> 
>> NAME
>>        lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.
>> 
>> SYNOPSIS
>>        lppasswd [ -a ] [ -g groupname ] [ -x ] [ username ]
>> 
>> linux:~ # lppasswd -a root -g sys
>> Enter password:
>> Enter password again:
>> linux:~ # lppasswd -a xxx  -g sys
>> Enter password:
>> Enter password again:
> 
> It worked after another fresh install. The only thing that I did
> differently was format /var (which I hadn't done).