[cups.bugs] Cups/printers.conf cannot be edited. Itre-writes itself. Need help!

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Apr 20 08:27:24 PDT 2009


On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:12 PM, George Ross wrote:
>>
>> --Apple-Mail-2--127053923
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> 	charset=windows-1252;
>> 	format=flowed;
>> 	delsp=yes
>>
>> Standard CUPS won't do this if you have actually stopped cupsd and  
>> it =20=
>>
>> is no longer running. Try:
>>
>>     lpadmin -p printer -o auth-info-required=3Dnone
>>
>> which makes the change to the running cupsd.
>
> Mike. Thanks, I appreciate you trying to help. I have a lack of  
> computer knowledge so please be patient.
> Are you saying to use the terminal & type;
> lpadmin -p printer -o auth-info-required=3Dnone

Just this command (with "printer" replaced with the name of your  
printer).

> Then type in changes;
> sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop
> sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf
> Change line to #AuthInfoRequired username,password
> Save/close
> sudo /etc/init.d/cups start

Don't use these commands at all.

________________________________________
Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer

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