Trouble adding cups users

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Sat Jan 7 14:30:25 PST 2006


> 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.
>
> I am using shadow passwords on my system, does lppasswd need access to the system passwd file??
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Witte





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