[cups.general] CUPS username/password

[Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD)]

On 2012-05-25 14:12, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> When I browse to http://localhost.localdomain:631/
> and click on Administration=>Add Printer
> I am asked to enter the CUPS username/password.
> It accepts root/<root-password>
> but I don't recall ever being asked to set this?
>
Look into /etc/pam.d/cups
it will most likely include sth. that uses pam_unix,
i.e. will authenticate against your standard Unix users.

hth,
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