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From: Johannes Meixner
Hello,
On Aug 15 09:27 Dave Barton wrote (shortened):
I recently did a fresh 10.2 install. Initially the printer setup went with any problems and printing from any app worked fine. ...
Tirsdag 14 august 2007 14:05 skrev Dave Barton: tried every possible variation of lppasswd and all I get is: "lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied"
On my current openSUSE 10.2 system:
ls -l /usr/bin/lppasswd -rwsr-xr-x 1 lp sys
I.e. it runs as setuid "lp".
Same here.
Does "lp" have sufficient permissions to create /etc/cups/passwd.md5 (i.e. does "lp" have write permissions for the /etc/cups/ directory)?
Yes
By the way: Regarding how to re-install CUPS, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_Reinstalling_the_Printing_System
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Yes I followed that procedure (3 times now), plus uninstalling and reinstalling required printer drivers. Thanks for trying to help Johannes, but I think I have pretty much exhausted all options and I have a business to run, so I cannot waste any more time on this. I have been playing with PCLinuxOS on another box and I am really impressed with it. As I have to reinstall I am going to switch distros. Dave