[cups.general] password

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Fri May 26 09:22:49 PDT 2006


rick pizzi wrote:

>I am using Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy. I have read many articles about how to login to admin(et al) and not being able to do so because it will not accept any password. I faced the same problem. In searching around I found the following solution:
>
>1.In group shadow add 'cupsys'.
>  In group lpadmin add 'your user name'
>
>2. Then: sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys
>   restart before opening http://localhost:631
>
>This worked for me!
>
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This is contained in /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian.gz. In general
when working
on debian based systems you should always read /usr/share/doc/package-name/





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