From: Kenneth Schneider (suseseclistrtsx.com)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 14:11:44 CST

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On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:14, John Dey wrote:
> Hello Everybody:
>
> I am a new SuSE user. I have installed SL9.0. I want to use CUPS to
> configure printers on a local network. When I browse to
> http://localhost:631, I get the top level from CUPS. However, when I
> click on Administration and respond to username and password by entering
> my root account information, I am informed that can not be
> authenticated. I am stuck. I have tried with KDE (response with the
> authentication message) and Mozilla browser (just comes back repeatedly
> and asks for username and password). I don't have the same problem with
> RH8--although the version of CUPS are probably different. Does anyone
> have any ideas how I can correct the situation? If this is the wrong
> list, please let me know as well. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> John Dey
>

cups was resently changed to have tighter security and therefore
authorized users need to be authorized using lppasswd. This was a popup
message that occurred during the install of cups. You can search the
list archives on the suse.com site for the exact syntax. Search the
suse-linux-e archives as well.

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Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)

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