[cups.general] How to login to cups localhost ?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 30 07:57 matthias.pospiech at gmx.de wrote (shortened):
> I want to access the restricted cups pages on localhost:631.
> However root or my user with correct password are not accepted

Without any information on which version of which Linux system
you run CUPS, I can only guess that cupsd may not run as root,
see for example
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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