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

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Monday 07 February 2005 01:59, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 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.

Ah, forgot that... Thanks!

>     Till

Cheers,
Kurt