[cups.general] Help. How do I get a user name and password

[Michael Sweet]

Please run:

	cupsctl --debug-logging

in the console, and then look for errors in the /var/log/cups/error_log file (accessible from the Console application) when you authenticate in the web browser.

On May 9, 2011, at 3:32 AM, E. Waltuch wrote:

> Please help.
> I have installed a series of foomatic and CUPS files to use a HP 1600 Colour Laser Printer with Mac OSX 10.6 which has no dative driver.
> Now the next step is to call http://localhost:631/ and under Administration set the printer's setting to "coulour" instead of the default "monochrome".
> However when I want to secure this printing settings, a CUPS user and password are requested from me in a window appearing on the top.
> I tried with my admin acccount name and password but the window with the prompt comes again and again.
> I set the "root" option in MAC OSX, which in its default position is off, and tried with "root" and its password. This did not help either.
> The window still comes again and again.
> I found somewhere in the web, that in the MAC Terminal-Utility I had to add myself as a user with the following:
> "lppasswd -a myusername"
> and give twice the password.
> However this should be done apparently as "root" since with as admin it is refused.
> I have no UNIX knowledge how to change the prompt which is:
> "MyNames-Mac-Pro:~ myshortusername$ " ...
> in order to be "root" and be accepted as a user with a password.
> Or is there an easy way in CUPS to save the setting "color" as definitive default printing setting?
> Thank you very very much for any kind help.
> Edmond
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair