https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=343242#c9 --- Comment #9 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2007-11-29 04:31:03 MST --- I am afraid but I have no idea why you cannot log in as root with the system root password. Usually such problems happen when an outdated CUPS 1.1 cupsd.conf is used on a CUPS 1.2 system as described in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell but in comment #7 you wrote "I have a 10.3 vanilla install and I have deleted and reinstalled CUPS in its entirety in attempting to resolve the username/password pair conflict." Regarding "Reinstalling the Printing System", see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_Reinstalling_the_Printing_System Alternatively it might help to "Allow printer admin tasks for a normal user", see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell To allow any user anything you may add this to cupsd.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------------- # Open and insecure policy which allows any user to do anything. <Policy allowanything> <Limit All> Order deny,allow </Limit> </Policy> DefaultPolicy allowanything ------------------------------------------------------------------- Have in mind that a user who is allowed to do printer admin tasks can change the print queues as he likes (e.g. send copies of confidental print jobs to any external destination). Furthermore to set up a HP device, it is often best to use HP's own tool "hp-setup" (run this as root) but in comment #0 you wrote that even this already failed for you. Finally it should not really cause problems if there is a non-working print queue as long as you have at least one working queue. Of course it is not nice to have a non-working queue but I think first of all at least one working queue is needed so that you can print. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.