-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2021-02-03 at 16:03 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 2/3/21 3:44 PM, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
I will repeat this until you understand it. YOU MUST USE THE USER NAME “ROOT” NOT YOUR USERNAME AND USE “ROOT’S” PASSWORD. Until you do this you will NEVER be able admin a *nix system. Certain operations on a Unix/Linux system require the credentials of almighty “root”. Accept this fact of life.
Just before this message, I recollected from long ago, and with a bit of tickle from someone here, that the user name for CUPS is root, and I put that in, and bob's your uncle! Printer now knows to use Letter size, which is what 8½x11 is called, and all is good. And thank you for coming right out and telling me that, in case I hadn't been able to dredge that up. It is certainly not obvious, since everywhere else that I'm aware of, the expression "user name" wants MY user name. --doug
Because it can be ANY user on your system, and you have to decide which to use. But, as you want to change the default options machine wide, it *obviouysly* needs you using "root". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYBsTcBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVRhcAn1Z2dkDv83SVK45cJJy/ qnlfLJ81AJ448/YU4+a8E1qcj0NEj8AfXGMpPA== =RaLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----