Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Terry Eck <terry_eck@xxxxxxxxxxx> [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.
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