Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 23:01 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 22/06/06 22:24, kai wrote:
> >
> >Interesting solution. I hadn't heard of doing this. 
> >
> >I still find it odd that CUPS needs a non-root password...
> >
> >I'll try it out for a few systems (which have the passwords written on sticky 
> >notes) and let you know how it goes.
> >
> >  
> Note what Johannes wrote; CUPS doesn't need any passwords at all, if you
> are only going to use Yast for printer administration. The password is
> only needed if you intend to use the CUPS web interface
> (http://localhost:631)
> 

Keep in mind that the administrator for cups need not be the _name_
root. You can use any name you wish, I use my user name as the cups
admin user with full admin rights.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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