* David McMillan
Mmm... that turned out to be an excellent pointer. I still don't know why it changed, and it turns out that, according to lppasswd, neither my root nor user accounts even exist.
That is correct. You will not have passwords (lppasswd) until *you* or someone administering your system *makes* lppasswd. pat@wahoo:~> lppasswd --help Usage: lppasswd [-g groupname] man lppasswd: DESCRIPTION lppasswd adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file, passwd.md5.
And apparently I don't even *have* a passwd.md5 file. I know I didn't delete it....
not unless it was created. It is not created by system installation or CUPS installation.
However, the man page directed me to the CUPS documentation, and digging through that for a while eventually brought me to a place where I could disable authentication entirely, and now I can access everything again. Now I'll just have to work out how to restore authentication and get myself authorized, but at least I know where the problem lives. Thank you very much.
you're welcome -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery