[cups.general] cups-1.2.1 build on SunOS 5.8, lppasswd command fails

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jun 7 11:00:57 PDT 2006


wtautz wrote:
> Hi,
> I having trouble running lppasswd as root to add new accounts
> on a SunOS5.8 system.
> 
> I did a truss -o logfile lppasswd cups-adm.
> 
> logfile:
> 
> It would seem it can't find locale files? (If so, how do I install
> these, the locale
> subdirectory in the source has not such files?)
> 
> lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied which is
> bizarre since I'm root???

lppasswd is setuid to lp in 1.2.1 and earlier; this is STR #1735 and
is fixed for 1.2.2.

Quick fix: chown root /usr/bin/lppasswd.

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