* Terry Eck [09-03-05 20:08]:

I tried the above in Konqueror but a user and password is required. I tried using "root" along with the correct password but no go. What user and password should be used for CUPS.

lppasswd --help man lppasswd -- 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

* Terry Eck [09-03-05 20:47]:

Thank Patrick, lppasswd seems to have done the trick. What I did: "lppasswd -a root" then entered root's password.

but you didn't read/heed the man file: SECURITY ISSUES The lppasswd command is installed setuid to root. While every attempt has been made to make it secure against exploits that could grant super-user priviledges to unpriviledged users, paranoid system administrators may wish to disable or change the owner­ ship of the program to an unpriviledged account. I would have used root with a different password.

I was then able to login to CUPS and change the paper size from A4 to letter.

Glad to have helped. btw, you can still change the root password for lppasswd to something else. -- 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

* Kelly J. Morris [09-03-05 20:59]:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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lppasswd --help man lppasswd

Patrick and Terry - I wasn't so lucky: when I run "lppasswd -a root" it asks for the root password and then rejects it after I key it in. I can log out and log in to root using this PW or use it with su or sudo with no problem. Which password is it asking for?

man lppasswd you do not have to use 'root' to administer cups, you *have* to have a password generated by lppasswd. man lppasswd the man pages *really* do help. If you still do not understand after consulting the man pages, ask specific questions. -- 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

* Kelly J. Morris [09-03-05 21:32]:

The logic seems to be circular: only root can add or change a password,

no: DESCRIPTION lppasswd adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file, passwd.md5. * When run by a normal user, lppasswd will prompt for the old and new passwords. * When run by the super-user, lppasswd can add new accounts (-a username), change existing accounts (username), or delete accounts (-x username) in the digest password file. .... The -g option specifies a group other than the system group - "sys", "system", or "root", depending on the operating system. normal user is kelly super-user is root

but logging in as root or using sudo or su does not help me add or change the PW, because I don't know the PW that I am changing from. Whatever PW I am changing from, it is not the root PW nor the PW for my UID. If I have to have a PW generated by lppasswd, how do I get one if I don't have one to begin with, or don't know what it is?

SYNOPSIS lppasswd [ -a ] [ -g groupname ] [ -x ] [ username ] to add kelly you need to be root to change kelly you need old password root can do everything as root to remove kelly lppasswd -x kelly as root to remove root lppasswd -x root as root to add root lppasswd -a root system will ask for password system will ask for confirm as root to add kelly lppasswd -a kelly system will ask for password system will ask for confirm as kelly to change kelly's password lppasswd kelly system will ask for old password system will ask for new password note: bad idea to use root's system password as lppasswd and bad idea to use kelly's system password as lppasswd remember that the man pages are written by programers mostly, not users. College professors do not talk (for the most part) at a third grade level. Almost EVERYONE has trouble understanding *some* of the manpages and some are very poorly written. gud luk, -- 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

Hello, On Sep 3 20:45 Terry Eck wrote (shortened):

What I did: "lppasswd -a root" then entered root's password. I was then able to login to CUPS and change the paper size from A4 to letter.

As long as you only use the CUPS HTTP web-frontend on localhost there should be no big security problem. But when you use the CUPS HTTP web-frontend from any remote host then note that HTTP does plain-text data transfer so that your root password would be transferred from the remote host to the host where the cupsd runs as plain-text. Therefore it is recommended to use at least a different password for admin authentication for CUPS. Personally I recommend to do remote CUPS administration only via login via ssh on the host where the cupsd runs and then use command line tools. Alternatively login via "ssh -X" and then you can use even any graphical printer admin tool (e.g. YaST). I.e. I recommend to use only one well known secure method to access a remote host. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/

I have had problems that sound very similar to yours. I found that the only way I can get this to work, but it works consistently for me now, is to start the printing manager, then put it into adminstrator mode. From here, I can make changes. If however, I make the changes and am prompted for authorization at that point, it _always_ rejects my credentials. HTH Cheers, Simon --- Terry Eck wrote:

suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com wrote:

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It sounds like you need to finish setting up the printer...I think it defaults to A4...those sizes are for everyone else but the US.

My guess is you can do this by going to: http://127.0.0.1:631/printers

There are other ways...

I tried the above in Konqueror but a user and password is required. I tried using "root" along with the correct password but no go. What user and password should be used for CUPS.

Terry

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