[Klug-general] Re: Cups - Admin Password

[Enquiries]

On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 18:16, Ritchie Fraser wrote:
> 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

Richie,
	try:

man lppasswd

That should help you a bit.



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