fedora 11 printer setup - lppasswd seems to not work?

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 17:35 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> Ive installed fedora 11.
> 
> I did this:
> 
> # lppasswd -a -g sys root
> <entered the passwd 2x>
> 
> # service cups restart
> 
> 
> Then I go to localhost:631 in firefox, go to admin  --> add printer
> 
> I get a prompt for a user/passwd but entering root and the passwd I entered 
> via lppasswd (above) does not work.

Did you change the default authentication type to one of the digest
types?

By default CUPS uses "Basic" for authentication, which maps to UNIX
users via pam.

Take a look at the DefaultAuthType and AuthType cupsd.conf directives.

Tim.
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