CUPS permmission prob - Am I dumb, or is the program dumb?

[Anonymous]

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:42:30 -0500, angelb wrote:
>
> > Try these in your server's cupsd.conf:
> >
> > <Location />
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > Deny From All
> > Allow From All
> > </Location>
> >
> > <Location /admin>
> > AuthType Basic
> > AuthGroupName lp
> > AuthClass Group
> > Order Deny,Allow
> > Allow From All
> > Deny From All
> > </Location>
> >
> > If you want to authenticate the rest, you can copy the directive from /admin as above and change it accordingly.
> > Now, to be able to do any administrative task, you need to add your account to /etc/group like the following:
> > lp:x:7:daemon,lp,grelli   (try using SystemGroup lp instead)
> > This should work for you.
>
> Well, I tried your suggestion, and still get "client-error-not-authourized"
> these are the lines that bother me from /var/log/cups/error_log: (*****)
>
> d [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] ProcessIPPRequest: URI="ipp://localhost/printers/canon"
> d [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] add_printer(5, ipp://localhost/printers/canon)
> *****d [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] CheckPolicy: op=4003, name="anonymous", authenticated=0, owner=""*****
> d [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] CheckPolicy: Operation requires authentication, returning 0!
> E [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] add_printer: not authorized!
> d [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] send_ipp_error(5, 403)
> D [18/Nov/2004:23:35:33 +0000] Sending error: client-error-not-authorized
>
> name="anonymous"  ??
>
> I've tried lpadmin as root as well as my login account (gino)
> $ /usr/local/sbin/lpadmin -p canon -E -P /etc/cups/ppd/lp0.ppd -v canon:/dev/lp0
> lpadmin: add-printer (enable) failed: client-error-not-authorized
> (I've given up on the web interface - 3 mins to go through the ADD PRINTER)
>
> from /etc/group:
> sys:x:3:root,bin,adm,lp,gino
> lp:x:7:daemon,lp,sys,gino
>
> from /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
> RemoteRoot remroot
> SystemGroup lp
> User lp
> Group sys
> Classification None
>
> Can I just lose ALL the authentication?
> I'm just a home user with 1 printer that everyone is allowed to use.