[cups.general] username/password issue

[wtautz]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Anne <anonymeeee0_3 at yahoo.com> wrote (Monday 07 August 2006 05:38):
>
>   
>> cups admin isn't letting me add a printer, not accepting 
>> my username and password, even as root.  Using Ubuntu 
>> linux....and yes I'm a member of the lpadmin group. 
>>     
>
>
> Please file a bug report with Ubuntu then. For example here:
>
>    https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+filebug
>
> (Ubuntu have heavily modified CUPS, and their version behaves
> different in may aspects of CUPS administrative actions due to
> them hardwiring cupsd to run as user "cupsys", not "root".)
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt
>
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>   
Anne, I assume you did (as root) adduser cupsys shadow. Since cupsd runs
as a non-root
user it can read the /etc/shadow file unless it's a member of the shadow
group. YOu will
need to restart cups once you have done this. This is mentioned in
/usr/share/doc/cupsys/

walter