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[Andreas <linuxdreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 13:28:37 schrieben Sie:
> Andreas skrev:
> > Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 06:52:27 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > - what happened to YaST's printer conf module?
> > > - normally you could ADD a new PPD file to the pool of PPD files - and
> > > hence define/create a printer to use it.
> > >
> > > I can't find that option anywhere...
> >
> > Me neither. I used the web interface for cups (http://localhost:631) to
> > add my printer with the custom ppd file. The installation was quite
> > straight forward.
>
> Hi
>
> Vauwww. wait...how did you manage to use the CUPS web interface. See my
> posting from earlier today...Don't you need to be a CUPS admin to do
> that? I.e., use something like "lppasswd -a -g sys root" and so forth..

I used the cups approach on openSUSE 10.3 and 11.0, and on both systems the 
root access to cups worked right out of the box. I vaguely remember that I 
had to do some "lppasswd magic" on my first linux system. But that was SUSE 
9.3 or 10.0.

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Gruß
Andreas
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