[cups.general] Login to cups on localhost:631 password failure

[David Southwell]

Thanks Michael - it looks as though you may have put your finger on the 
problem -- but I am not certain how to react to it!!! (see below)
> 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...)
ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
There is no /etc/pam.d/cups file !!

There is a
/usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups 

which has the following lines:
auth	required	pam_unknown.so nodelay
account	required	pam_unknown.so

Shown below is ls -l for each directory!

Wanted --- good model for pam.d/cups and where to put it!!! <chuckles>

[NB This is a freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64 system with intel quad core.]
dns1# ls -l /etc/pam.d/
total 38
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2907 May  1  2009 README
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   322 May  1  2009 atrun
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   199 May  1  2009 cron
-rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel   547 May  1  2009 ftp
-rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel   547 May  1  2009 ftpd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   467 May  1  2009 gdm_disabled
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   365 May  1  2009 imap
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   467 May  1  2009 kde
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   374 May  1  2009 login
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   662 May  1  2009 other
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   319 May  1  2009 passwd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   365 May  1  2009 pop3
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   328 May  1  2009 rsh
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   739 May  1  2009 sshd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   380 May  1  2009 su
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   705 May  1  2009 system
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   754 May  1  2009 telnetd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   532 May  1  2009 xdm

dns1# ls -l /usr/local/etc/pam.d
total 16
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   69 Dec 10 09:19 cups
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  672 Dec  7 10:06 gdm
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   98 Nov 29 17:42 gnome-screensaver
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  135 Nov  4 22:09 polkit
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  135 Dec  2 09:00 polkit-1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  399 Sep 27 18:20 sudo
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  399 Sep 27 18:20 sudo.default
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   98 Nov  5 03:22 xscreensaver