Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:50, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> I get a message to put in my username and pasword.  I have only used
> a couple of usernames and basically one password for everything, but
> this site doesn't like any combination I can come up with.  Now what?

Hi Doug,

Here's what I think may be a related item from my personal 'hardware tips' 
archive:

> As root, in a console run "lppasswd -a <username>", resulting in a prompt
> for a password followed by a prompt to verify it. The password must be 6
> characters long and must contain at least one letter and one number.
>
> Then, as that user, connect to the cupsd admin port, http://localhost:631.
> (It is not necessary to restart cups after creating the cups account for
> this user.) Click on "Printers", black button along the top row of the
> page. Find the appropriate printer, and click on the "Configure printer"
> button; you will be prompted for a username/password, which you have just
> added with lppasswd. Once you are authenticated, confirm/adjust your
> printer settings and click "Continue" to finish the task.

hth & regards,

Carl
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