CUPS username/password

[Paul Conklin]

if CUPS asks for a UN/PW that's dictated by the cupsd.conf file.  if you want to remove that, set all of your sections to Allow All and comment out the Require user stanza

> 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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