Cannot Authenticate Login to CUPS for doingAdmin Tasks

Anurag anurag.chourasia at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 12:44:56 PDT 2010


Hi Mike,

I was all set to capture the logs and It's strange that the problem is resolved without me doing anything. I don't know what to say. I am embarrased :-)

I have been having this problem for last 2 weeks. I have restarted CUPS multiple times but no result. Today i can authenticate using the root user or any normal user.

Thanks a lot for the response.

Regards,
Anurag

> Any errors in /var/log/cups/error_log?
>
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Anurag wrote:
>
> > Dear CUPS Team,
> >=20
> > When doing any admin task on the printer through the CUPS =
> Interface(http://localhost:631), we are prompted for the user ID and =
> Password. But no matter what we enter(including root or any other user's =
> credentials) the CUPS Interface is not accepting the User/Password. The =
> User/Password keeps popping up as if the entered credentials were wrong =
> (even when they were correct). End of this message has the config file =
> for CUPS that we are using.
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
> > Kernel 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 on an x86_64
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > yum info cups.x86_64
> > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
> > Installed Packages
> > Name       : cups
> > Arch       : x86_64
> > Epoch      : 1
> > Version    : 1.3.7
> > Release    : 18.el5_5.7
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > MaxLogSize 2000000000
> > # Show troubleshooting information in error_log.
> > LogLevel debug
> > SystemGroup sys root
> > # Allow remote access
> > Port 631
> > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> > # Enable printer sharing and shared printers.
> > Browsing On
> > BrowseOrder allow,deny
> > # (Change '@LOCAL' to 'ALL' if using directed broadcasts from another =
> subnet.)
> > BrowseAllow @LOCAL
> > BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> > DefaultAuthType Basic
> > <Location />
> >  # Allow shared printing and remote administration...
> >  Order allow,deny
> >  Allow @LOCAL
> > </Location>
> > <Location /admin>
> >  Encryption Required
> >  # Allow remote administration...
> >  Order allow,deny
> >  Allow @LOCAL
> > </Location>
> > <Location /admin/conf>
> >  AuthType Default
> >  Require user @SYSTEM @OWNER
> >  # Allow remote access to the configuration files...
> >  Order allow,deny
> >  Allow @LOCAL
> > </Location>
> > <Policy default>
> >  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job =
> Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription =
> Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job =
> Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
> >    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
> >    Order deny,allow
> >  </Limit>
> >  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer =
> CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
> >    AuthType Default
> >    Require user @SYSTEM
> >    Order deny,allow
> >  </Limit>
> >  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer =
> Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs =
> Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer =
> Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs =
> CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
> >    AuthType Default
> >    Require user @SYSTEM
> >    Order deny,allow
> >  </Limit>
> >  <Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
> >    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
> >    Order deny,allow
> >  </Limit>
> >  <Limit All>
> >    Order deny,allow
> >  </Limit>
> > </Policy>
> >=20
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >=20
> > Kindly help me out here.
> >=20
> > Regards,
> > Anurag
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> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>
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>
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