Hello, On Sep 3 20:45 Terry Eck wrote (shortened):
What I did: "lppasswd -a root" then entered root's password. I was then able to login to CUPS and change the paper size from A4 to letter.
As long as you only use the CUPS HTTP web-frontend on localhost there should be no big security problem. But when you use the CUPS HTTP web-frontend from any remote host then note that HTTP does plain-text data transfer so that your root password would be transferred from the remote host to the host where the cupsd runs as plain-text. Therefore it is recommended to use at least a different password for admin authentication for CUPS. Personally I recommend to do remote CUPS administration only via login via ssh on the host where the cupsd runs and then use command line tools. Alternatively login via "ssh -X" and then you can use even any graphical printer admin tool (e.g. YaST). I.e. I recommend to use only one well known secure method to access a remote host. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/