[Linux-disciples] CUPS wants a password

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Try http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/linux

You might also be able to add your user to the proper group--myaybe lp or cups?

i.e., adduser nahash cups

Karl Sokol wrote:
> 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:~$
> 
> 
> -- 
> 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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