Password Authentication for SUSE (use "lppasswd" to add a user)

[Till Kamppeter]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> Anyway, IIRC SUSE use the "AuthType BasicDigest" (or was it "AuthType 
> Digest"?) in their cupsd.conf. You should check it.
> 
[...]
> 
> If you dont want to use it, set cupsd.conf to use "AuthType Basic"
> and restart cupsd.
> 
>

Kurt, this will not work, as under SuSE CUPS is running as the user "lp" 
and not as root for security reasons. So one must switch back to CUPS 
running as root in addition. For that you also need to switch

RunAsUser Yes

to

RunAsUser No

and restart the CUPS daemon.

    Till