CUPS not accepting root username and password for configuration
Folks, Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them. I've tried KDE and Gnome's printer managers on the outside chance that the switch might make a difference. But it doesn't. I've also tried using Yast to uninstall and reinstall my printer. While I get the "Hello World" test page, again, no jobs print once I'm working with applications and have reoriented them to the "new" installation of my printer. And I've tried powering down, then repowering the printer. Is there a CUPS configuration file I need to tweak, or am I stuck with having to uninstall and reinstall CUPS? With best regards, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Peter N. Spotts <pspotts@alum.mit.edu> [10-28-04 07:26]:
Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them.
lppasswd is the command you need. man lppasswd -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
Hello, On Oct 28 08:23 Peter N. Spotts wrote (shortened):
SuSE 9.1 log in with root username and password CUPS doesn't accept them.
This question was asked here so many times and it was answered so many times: Please read the appropriate support database articles: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/08/jsmeix_print-from-version-to-version.h... If you used http://portal.suse.com/PM/page/search.pm and if you chose "Fulltext search in SDB" and if you searched for cups password you would have found the right information. Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX AG, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:45:47 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> wrote:
This question was asked here so many times and it was answered so many times:
Johannes, Thanks for your reply. And I'm grateful it was answered once more. I appreciate the URL; I've bookmarked it for future reference. With best regards, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Thursday 28 October 2004 8:23 am, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them. I've tried KDE and Gnome's printer managers on the outside chance that the switch might make a difference. But it doesn't. I've also tried using Yast to uninstall and reinstall my printer. While I get the "Hello World" test page, again, no jobs print once I'm working with applications and have reoriented them to the "new" installation of my printer. And I've tried powering down, then repowering the printer. Is there a CUPS configuration file I need to tweak, or am I stuck with having to uninstall and reinstall CUPS?
I don't have the answer, but that happened to me today, so when you find out, let me know ! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks, Hi Pete,
Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them. I've tried KDE and Gnome's printer managers on the outside chance that the switch might make a difference. But it doesn't. I've also tried using Yast to uninstall and reinstall my printer. While I get the "Hello World" test page, again, no jobs print once I'm working with applications and have reoriented them to the "new" installation of my printer. And I've tried powering down, then repowering the printer. Is there a CUPS configuration file I need to tweak, or am I stuck with having to uninstall and reinstall CUPS?
With best regards,
Off a recent mailing I received: Troubleshooting and administration/control of printers in Linux from the command line http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,16zm,1,1mgb,5ejy,4c69,h6di I haven't the site/s yet so do tell. HIH -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================
On Saturday 30 October 2004 08:39 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks,
Hi Pete,
Perhaps through choking my system (SuSE 9.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop) with too many print jobs, the printer stopped (HP Deskjet 6122) and CUPS shows my printer as inactive. But when I try to log in with root username and password to reactivate it, CUPS doesn't accept them. I've tried KDE and Gnome's printer managers on the outside chance that the switch might make a difference. But it doesn't. I've also tried using Yast to uninstall and reinstall my printer. While I get the "Hello World" test page, again, no jobs print once I'm working with applications and have reoriented them to the "new" installation of my printer. And I've tried powering down, then repowering the printer. Is there a CUPS configuration file I need to tweak, or am I stuck with having to uninstall and reinstall CUPS?
With best regards,
Off a recent mailing I received: Troubleshooting and administration/control of printers in Linux from the command line http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,16zm,1,1mgb,5ejy,4c69,h6di
I haven't the site/s yet so do tell.
HIH Did you do lppasswd -a <nameof user>
The default for CUPS from SuSE is to not have a user assigned, some security thing. If you use root as the name of the user it will then ask for a password. THEN you can do what you need to. There have been several threads recently on this problem. ra -- Old age ain't for Sissies!
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