[cups.general] Help - cannot manage printers

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote (Thursday 13 July 2006 02:47):

> CUPS disabled our main print queue for no reason today, 

Oh? And you yourself did of course nothing to change anything in
CUPS or in its environment or OS platform? No update? No "apt-get
dist-upgrade"? No installation of a new version of PAM? No nothing?

> and now I 
> cannot restart the queue. No matter what password I use, I am greeted
> with "This server could not verify that you are authorized to access
> the resource."

And what's in the error_log file, with LogLevel debug(2)?

And what's in the cupsd.conf? (no comments please, if you paste it)

> I have tried lppasswd -a root to no avail. 
> 
> This is cups 1.2.1.

And what OS or Linux distro??

You know, there is f.e. Ubuntu, whose packagers decided they know
better how to make a secure CUPS than the original developers do;
therefor they patched the CUPS sources to hardwire an irreversible,
unconfigurable "RunAsUser Yes; and the UserName is cupsys" into it
which seems to break various things...

> I miss cups 1.1 :-(

I'm pretty happy with it :-)

> Thanks.

Cheers,
Kurt