Trouble adding cups users

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Sat Jan 7 14:27:39 PST 2006


>
> While collecting the information, I discovered the problem: lppasswd was installed setuid lp, not root, and therfore could not access the passwd file.
>
> pipitas wrote:
> > Andrew Witte wrote:
> >
> > > After installing cups (from source, on debian/testing running a 2.6
> > > kernel) I tried to run 'lppasswd -g sys -a root' (as root) to add the root
> > > user, and got:
> > >
> > > # lppasswd -g sys -a root
> > > Enter password:
> > > Enter password again:
> > > lppasswd: Unable to open passwd file: Permission denied
> > >
> > > The file /etc/cups/passwd.md5 does not exist. Touching this file before
> > > running lppasswd does not help.
> >
> > What are the permissions and ownership of "/etc/cups/"? Give us
> > the output of
> >
> >   ls -la /etc/cups
> >
> > What are the "RunAsUser" and the "User" settings in cupsd.conf?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kurt
>





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