CUPS horror story

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Aug 31 04:41:12 PDT 2006


Zoubidoo wrote:
> ...
> Next, I try the CUPS web interface (localhost:631). It has a
> promising checkbox "share published printers connected to this
> system".  Excellent!  Then it asks me for a "username and password
> for 'CUPS'".  The only password for this ubuntu platform doesn't
> work.  This very problem was mentioned in ESR's article, so from the
> outside it looks like no progress here.

Ubuntu seriously broke CUPS 1.2.  Please file a bug report with
the Ubuntu folks - maybe they can be convinced to fix things...

Also, I *think* the following FAQ is still useful on Ubuntu:

     http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L274

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