* Vince Littler (suse@archipelago.eclipse.co.uk) [031203 12:42]:
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:32, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Ok. This may have been discussed here but I may have not paid enough attention to the threads to see it...
Have any of you had issued with Konq/Mozilla when using the web configure tool for CUPS (ie. http://localhost:631) and it not being able to auth even root. I ran into this on a fresh install of 9.0 on my parents computer. It just absolutely refuse to auth root when I was logged in as root. I've never seen this but then again I'm not a big printer guy ..I've got my little Epson 880 at home and the two HP's at work that haven't changed in the last 3 years. So I could be missing something.
pointer to answer, rather than full answer
As of 9.0, cups now uses its own systemuser id, rather than that of root, because there was a security hole, and you have to set the password via the command line which generates its own encrypted password file just for cups. Probably got some of the detail munged, but that's the gist. Recent article on this in the SUSE support database
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