[cups] lpr requiring a password from the command line

Johnnie W Adams jxadams at ualr.edu
Fri Sep 17 12:45:25 PDT 2021


Hi, folks,

     I naïvely copied my cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf files from a 1.6.3
machine to a 2.2.6 machine and everything looked fine at first.

     Now users are asked for passwords when using lpr on the command line.
What have I done?

Thanks,

     John A

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