[cups] Help with administration in Raspbian

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 27 January 2017 15:05:51 Ricardo Sánchez wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I am new to Linux and am having a problem with the CUPS admin page. I
> have installed CUPS on a Raspberri Pi and have been able to access
> CUPS via browser, but when I try to access the admin page to install a
> printer, I get a frustrating message: "FORBIDDEN". Can anyone give me
> an idea of where the problem might be?

It should be asking for your passwd to do a sudo so you can do that, or 
the root password, which would also give you root rights.  A third way 
would be do add yourself to the group lpadmin.

> Thanks in advance.
> Greetings.
> Ricardo
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