Can be Authenticated When Checking into CUPS Admin
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
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. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
Hello, On Jan 7 14:14 John Dey wrote (shortened):
I have installed SL9.0. 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.
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html By the way: 1. This is also mentioned in the "Release notes" which are shown at the end of the installation: file:///usr/share/doc/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html 2. If you use YaST you don't need to authenticate for CUPS because YaST uses CUPS library calls which are equivalent to CUPS's "lpadmin" command line tool which you can use as well without authentication. Kind regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX AG, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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