On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 08:03 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:25 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
And not-so-newbies as well! The official answer as to why it is set up this way can be found here:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html
Hmm...there seems to be a way to let CUPS admin = root. I'll try that.
You can add as many "cups admins" as you want. I know of no limit.
I think it would be nice if YaST had a button in the printer section to say "allow printer admin by root". That might be a secure but convenient compromise.
The KDE print manager does have this as I use it for setting up -all- of my printers.
That would work.
As far as I'm concerned, the need for a CUPS admin should be turned off by default.
I've already emailed Novell about this and displayed my
displeasure at not having the ability to have the same password for CUPS as root on several NG's and forums.
Nothing stops you having the same password. Just enter root and its password into the lppasswd command.
Nope. Doesn't work. On my systems and my mothers 9.2 system, the root and CUPS password are forced to be different. When I tried to use the root password on lppassword, I was denied. I had no problem the the four 9.2 systems I setup, you must have a syntax error somewhere. It does allow the same password. Cut and paste
It is there for security reasons. this: lppasswd -g sys -a root and use the system root password. Once again it does work. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998