On Friday 29 December 2006 23:00, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 22:06 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I had my HP970Cxi working, then it failed. I managed to install it > > again, once, and it successfgully printed a test page, but nothing since. > > I decided to remove it, and start over. Now when I get up to the window > > that says "settings" and "print test page" or something like that, I > > select letter size, and then go to test, and a little "Authentication - > > KDE Daemon" window opens in the bottom tool bar. I snap on that, and it > > asks me for a password. I have never used more than one password on this > > machine, but the Daemon won't take that password. What do I do now? If > > I can't have a printer work in Linux, I will have no choice but to go > > back to Windows, even the miserable Windows 98, which I at least have the > > software for, somewhere. Don't send me anything I have to print out to > > learn--I can't print anything at the moment, and the Windows machine is > > totally kaput right now. As you can see, it's hair-tearing time on Long > > Island! > > As the user root: > > lppasswd -a -g sys some_user_name > > input the password twice and you're good to go. > > -- > Ken Schneider > UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
I thank you very much for your assistance, but I have a problem: This is what I was complaining about the other day. I don't want the damned system to tell me what my password should look like, I want to select it myself, whether it has only five characters, whether it has a number in it, whether it has mixed case, etc. How can I make the system accept a simple password that I can remember? Just 5 characters, with or w/o a number, for instance? Anyone who really wants into the system will get in anyway-- they've gotten into the DoD and the FBI, and some super-secret British agency, so what's the big deal? I don't have my banking information on line, and won't. I've looked at man passwd, and there are only a few lines, nothing to help solve this problem, altho I think some folks had a way of modifying passwd so you could use what you want. Unfortunately, I have no useful fecord of that--it may have come in on the Windows machine, which is, at the moment, hors de combat, and is likely to be for a few days, at least. I have also looked at the 4th Edition of the Linux Bible and found no assistance. If it is possible to change the actions of passwd, then how? TIA, all. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
