[HLUG] CUPS needs password

[Julian Robbins]

Graham Cole wrote:

>Hi everyone
>I found a hint in the CUPS forum. Other people are being puzzled by
>needing a password specifically for CUPS admin.
>The hint was to execute the command lppasswd first. Give it the password
>and user ID to run CUPS under. 
>OK, I am root and I give it a password but it does not work. There is a
>man page but I don't understand it as usual. Maybe someone else does? I
>cannot see how to change or set a password from this man page...........
>
>lppasswd(1)                 Easy Software Products
>lppasswd(1)
>  
>
I think if I remember have you set up a root password in Hoary ? If not, 
CUPS has to use the root account and password to do its stuff. If you 
havnet got a root account defined, well it won't work.

To create a root account in Ubuntu hoary try

sudo passwd root

Julian

>NAME
>       lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.
>
>SYNOPSIS
>       lppasswd [ -a ] [ -g groupname ] [ -x ] [ username ]
>
>DESCRIPTION
>       lppasswd  adds,  changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest
>pass- word file, passwd.md5. When run by a normal user, lppasswd will
>prompt for the old and new passwords. When run by the super-user,
>lppasswd can add new accounts (-a username), change existing accounts
>(username), or delete accounts (-x username) in the digest password
>file. Digest user-names do not have to match local UNIX usernames, but
>only  UNIX  user-names are supported by the CUPS client programs (lp(1),
>lpr(1), etc.)
>
>       The  -g  option  specifies a group other than the system group -
>"sys", "system", or "root", depending on the operating system.
>
>SECURITY ISSUES
>       The lppasswd command is installed setuid to root. While  every
>attempt has  been  made  to  make  it  secure against exploits that
>could grant super-user priviledges to unpriviledged users, paranoid
>system adminis-trators  may  wish to disable or change the ownership of
>the program to an unpriviledged account.
>
>SEE ALSO
>       lp(1), lpr(1), CUPS Software Administrators Manual, CUPS Software
>Users Manual, http://localhost:631/documentation.html
>
>COPYRIGHT
>       Copyright 1993-2005 by Easy Software Products, All Rights
>Reserved.
>
>7 June 2001               Common UNIX Printing System
>lppasswd(1)
>~
>~
>Thanks for any help.
>
>
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