[Klug-general] Re: Cups - Admin Password

[Ritchie Fraser]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 07:56, Margot wrote:
> Ritchie Fraser wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 June 2005 06:50, you wrote:
> >>Ritchie Fraser wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 23 June 2005 00:38, Ritchie Fraser wrote:
> >>>>All,
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm afraid I've been a numb-nuts and forgotten my admin password to
> >>>> allow me to administer CUPS locally. How can I reset this? Which User
> >>>> does CUPS use (is it lp?).
> >>>>
> >>>>I am trying to add/configure a printer via the CUPS web interface and
> >>>> it is requesting a username and password. I've supplied all of the
> >>>> combinations of root / lp and possible passwords and still cant gain
> >>>> access. This is really frustrating, I knew the username/passsword just
> >>>> a couple of weeks ago and now I seem to have forgot it.
> >>>>
> >>>>All pointers, hints or just instruction IS appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>>Yours
> >>>>
> >>>>Ritchie
> >>>
> >>>What a womble I'm being just lately. Forgot to say: HP compaq nc6000
> >>>laptop, 256Mb Memory, 30Gb HDD, SuSE 9.1
> >>>
> >>>Old age and failing memory is racing upon my already feeble braincell
> >>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>
> >>>Ritchie
> >>
> >>I've never used SuSE, so things may be different, but for
> >>Mandrake/Mandriva all Cups admin is done by root - so the username is
> >>root and the password is the root password. Have you tried that
> >>combination?
> >
> > Yes, and I can still do stuff as root like logging in etc... :-(
> >
> > Thanks for the reply anyway!
> >
> > Ritchie
>
> Someone on another list was having a similar problem a few weeks ago,
> but he was using Ubuntu which doesn't have a root password - everything
> is done by sudo, so it turned out that all he needed was to enter his
> own "normal" username and password. Have you tried that?
>
> Failing that, in Mandrake/driva there's a handy little GUI utility
> called userdrake - used by root, it displays details of all users and
> groups and allows them to be edited. Is there something similar in SuSE?

Hi Margot,

Yep, my normal username/password combo also doesn't work. 
SuSE has a Yast module called "User and Group Administration" which requires 
the root password to open it, where I can change passwords etc for any 
account. There is no dedicated account called cups. The only one that I can 
see that might be relevant is lp. I have already changed the password for 
this account but makes no difference. The web authentication just wont accept 
it.

Regards

Ritchie

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