[PLUG] CUPS Password Problem

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 09 March 2007 11:16, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> What does one do when CUPS doesn't recognize root's password?
>
> I currently have no printer on this machine, so I have no historical
> settings to be concerned about.
>
> If I were to uninstall and reinstall CUPS, would it start fresh, or
> would I need to manually find whatever file has CUPS' password and
> remove it?
>
> Is there a better way to think about this problem?
>
> TIA.

I wonder if SUSE did the same dim thing as Ubuntu Dapper and older, which 
(stupidly) disabled the root password in CUPS and the CUPS web interface. 

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/13/enabling-cupsys-web-admin-interface/


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