[Linux-disciples] CUPS wants a password

[Karl Sokol]

I installed HPLIP toolbox. It recognizes my printer (HP Deskjet 842-c), but
when I go to do anything a CUPS password dialogue comes up. The problem is
that my username and password do not work. I read somewhere that you have to
use your root account. Well, just typing root and then using the password
that I use for sudo does not work either. I think that this might be because
of Ubuntu's default of not allowing root login (which came up previously on
this list, I think).

The following does not seem to work:

nahash at ubuntu:~$ sudo lppasswd nahash
Enter password:
Enter password again:
lppasswd: Unable to open passwd file: Permission denied
nahash at ubuntu:~$


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Grace and Peace,
Karl Sokol

"They that are bound for heaven must be willing to swim against the stream,
and must do, not as most do, but as the best do."
-John Wesley's notes on Joshua 24:15
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