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From: Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed 15 Aug 2007 04:44:16 PM EST

> Hello,
> 
> On Aug 15 09:27 Dave Barton wrote (shortened):
>>> Tirsdag 14 august 2007 14:05 skrev Dave Barton:
>>>> I recently did a fresh 10.2 install. Initially the printer setup went
>>>> with any problems and printing from any app worked fine.
> ...
>> tried every possible variation of lppasswd and all I get is:
>> "lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied"
> 
> On my current openSUSE 10.2 system:
> 
> ls -l /usr/bin/lppasswd
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 lp sys
> 
> I.e. it runs as setuid "lp".

Same here.

> Does "lp" have sufficient permissions to create /etc/cups/passwd.md5
> (i.e. does "lp" have write permissions for the /etc/cups/ directory)?

Yes

> By the way:
> Regarding how to re-install CUPS, see
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_Reinstalling_the_Printing_System
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner

Yes I followed that procedure (3 times now), plus uninstalling and
reinstalling required printer drivers.

Thanks for trying to help Johannes, but I think I have pretty much
exhausted all options and I have a business to run, so I cannot waste
any more time on this. I have been playing with PCLinuxOS on another box
and I am really impressed with it. As I have to reinstall I am going to
switch distros.

Dave

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