[cups.general] Login to cups on localhost:631 password failure
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Thu Dec 10 09:56:40 PST 2009
On Dec 10, 2009, at 5:34 AM, David Southwell wrote:
> Thanks to some help from people on one of the freebsd lists I have
> finally succeeded in getting cups the server to communicate with the printer
> and print.
> HOWEVER!!
>
> One minor niggling problem remains. I still cannot communicate with the cups
> management interface on http://localhost:631 due to password authentication
> failure. So the title of this thread is still very relevant.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help with the problem.
>
> To bring readers up to date:
>
> I try logging in as 'root' with correct root password in the login
> dialogue.
>
> I altered the loglevel to debug and the output is at the end of this post.
>
> It seems as though the cupsd is not receiving the input (probably due to some
> config error on my part!). I have tried using a number of different browsers
> but get the same result.
>
> Prior to testing I did:
>
> dns1# lppasswd -g wheel -a root
> The standard cups error log showed
> cupsdAuthorize: pam_start() returned 4 (system error)!
OK, so you have a PAM configuration error most likely - check that the /etc/pam.d/cups file is consistent with the other PAM files in /etc/pam.d (i.e. using the correct security modules...)
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
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