lpadmin and lprm will not work without a password

[Rob Parenti]

I feel I’ve tried everything, and don’t see anything relevant in the forums.  I have two separate CUPS/1.4.6 servers, SLES 11.1, one Production and one Testing.  The CUPS configurations are virtually identical in every way I can see.  The Production server always works great.  The Testing server always requires me to enter the root password for every lpadmin command.  Otherwise I get “lpadmin: Unauthorized”.  I use scripts, as root, to submit batches of lpadmin commands, so the password really interferes with a large batch.  But more importantly, it needs to work exactly like the Production machine.

I’m including access_log, error_log, and cupsd.conf.  Everything on the web interface works just fine.  I’m trying to use lpadmin, as root, connected with ssh.  Could it be file permissions I missed somewhere?

Regards
RobP

Access_log
147.70.10.205 - - [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1 401 0 - -

Error_log
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from 147.70.10.205:631 (IPv4)
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdIsAuthorized: username=
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdSendHeader: 9 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=CUPS
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [13/Dec/2011:14:06:17 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy

LogLevel debug
ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log
ServerAdmin a at b.com
MaxLogSize 0
AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log
AccessLogLevel all
PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log
PageLogFormat %p %j %P %u %T %{job-name} Printcap MaxJobs 0 MaxPrinterHistory 0 PreserveJobFiles Yes

SystemGroup root operators
User lp
Group lp
RemoteRoot remote
Port 631

Browsing On
BrowseOrder Allow,Deny
BrowseAllow 999.99.13.*

DefaultAuthType None
DefaultEncryption Never

<Location />
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 999.99.4.*
  Allow From 999.99.8.*
  Allow From 999.99.10.*
  Allow From 999.99.11.*
  Allow From 999.99.13.*
</Location>

<Location /admin>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthClass System
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 999.99.10.*
  Allow From 999.99.13.*
</Location>

<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Basic
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 999.99.10.*
  Allow From 999.99.13.*
</Location>

<Location /jobs>
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 999.99.13.*
</Location>

<Location /printers>
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 999.99.13.*
</Location>