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wilberfan

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From: So. Cal

Registered: 2010-12-18

Posts: 264

Reset CUPS password?!

I've been trying to get my printer set up.   I've managed to get CUPS and a bunch of other stuff installed, etc.   The first time I entered the CUPS web interface, I was prompted for my username and password.

Not knowing any better, I entered my user name & password (instead of the root password).

Now I can't do ANYTHING (add/delete printers, etc) because it's "forbidden".   

How the flock do I reset the password--or otherwise change CUPS so that I have administrator privileges??

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Reset CUPS password?!

Your login is probably stores in a session cookie, have you cleared cookies or restarted your browser?

If that doesn't work, maybe you need to restart cups.  I can't imagine logins would persist beyond a daemon restart.

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wilberfan

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From: So. Cal

Registered: 2010-12-18

Posts: 264

Re: Reset CUPS password?!

In desperation, I ended up removing and reinstalling CUPS (!)   

I got the printer working, and whenever I'm prompted for a username, I have to enter 'root' (literally the word -> root <- as my username) and my root password...

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Reset CUPS password?!

Yup, that's the way it works by default.  You may be able to set it up so you could administer with your user credentials, but I've no idea how to do it.

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Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

Posts: 1,237

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Re: Reset CUPS password?!

Create a printer group, add yourself to it, then add 'printer' to the 'SystemGroup' config variable in /etc/cupsd.conf.

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