[cups.general] password

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> 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/

However, if Debian added this to the "standard configuration" help
file, added a new help file, or added it to any of the CUPS web
interface content, then users wouldn't need to dig for the info...

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