Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 21:17 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 18:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-03-07 18:22]:
> > > On Monday 02 April 2007 21:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > > * Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-02-07 20:32]:
> > > >  [...]
> >
> >  [...]
> >
> > > I have read man lppasswd but I don't know what to do next.  It would
> > > appear from the error message that the username is doug, but it says
> > > on localhost, and the man lppasswd refers to cups, not localhost, or
> > > am I still missing something?
> >
> > yes, you are missing something.  From 'man lppasswd':
> >
> > 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. Digest usernames do not have to
> >        match local UNIX user†names.
> >
> >  [....] also
> >

The command needs to be run as root. You can do this either by logging
in as root or simply use su to become root. The command is:

lppasswd -g sys -a some_admin_username

You will be asked to supply a password twice. Once this is setup you
will need to use this supplied user name and password. And the
some_admin_username can be anything you want it to be.

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

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