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The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 01:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Well, the password thing seemed not to have worked. When I went to the
> print manager, and it asked for a password, it burped and said it didn't
> recognise the pw. I gave it the pw that I put in in the lppasswd dialog,
> that
> you provided above.
And the same user you gave it? It doesn't need to be root.
Check the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for who is allowed access. It has comments.
For instance:
<Location /admin>
AuthType BasicDigest
AuthClass Group
AuthGroupName sys
## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Why in hell Linux needs a password to print something that can be seen on the
> screen is absolutely beyond me. And why that password is different from the
> root pw is even further beyond me.
The password is not for printing. It is for altering printer
configuration, for managing the printer. You can see the printers and the
pending jobs without password. Why it must be different is explained in
the docus and has been comented here on other ocassions - you are of
course free to ignore that recomendation, sp if you don't network your
cups server. Notice that you can administer the printer as user, too. No
need to be root.
You should simply click on the "printers" tab, look at your printer, where
you might see something like this:
lp "Paused"
Description: default configuration
Location: local
Make and Model: Canon BJC-4000 Foomatic/bjc600 (recommended)
Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
Print Test Page *Start Printer* Reject Jobs Move All Jobs
Cancel All Jobs Unpublish Printer Modify Printer Set Printer Options
Delete Printer Set As Default Set Allowed Users
where I have shown the printer as stopped and I would have to click on
"Start Printer" to print again.
You can also go to the "Job" tabs, and list all pending or completed jobs.
You might even reprint and old job.
And you have a "Help" tab too.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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