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

[Karl Scheel]

SuSE can use a different password for accessing cupsd (lp) than root, unless 
the "original" root makes them identical after issuing the "lppasswd" 
command. In this case s/he probably did not.

Karl

On Sunday 06 February 2005 20:59, 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.
>
>     Till
>
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