[cups.general] CUPS log in problem

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Sep 30 10:49 hombre3 wrote (shortened):
> I am attempting to log into the CUPS management utility
> at localhost:631. I am using my root username and password
> but the CUPS utility will not recognize it and grant access.

Without any information on which Linux system you run CUPS
I can only guess that cupsd may not run as root, see
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html

If you run CUPS on MacOS 10.3.x, see
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L191


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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