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On 31/05/2010 19:26:07, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> Hello,
> my problem sounds trivial, but isn't. I can not login to my cups server
> on localhost via http://localhost:631, which worked for me several
> months ago. Well I installed a new host using FreeBSD 9.0-CUR and need
> to add printers. Regarding to this problem I found a lot of stuff in the
> net and mailing lists, but none of the hints and tipps worked for me.
> First I will describe what I've already did.
> 
> 1) ensured local BSD lpd is not running
> 2) on a prior installed system where cups is up and running printing is
> possible but no administration (see subject), so  the problem seems to
> be common.
> 3) followed some hints adding a user "root" with proper password via
> "lppasswd"
> 4) deleted password.md5 and performed step 3) again
> 5) deleted all ports cups-* and /usr/local/cups folder and reinstalled
> cups, ensured having nothing left in /usr/local/etc
> 
> The problem occured out of the blue to me, I possibly missed some
> changes within the last row of updates.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Please eMail me since I'm not subscriber of the "question" list.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Check /usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups -- change it to use pam_unix rather than
pam_unknown.  (pam_unknown is, errr..., unknown on FreeBSD...)
Like this:

auth    required        pam_unix.so nodelay
account required                pam_unix.so

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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