I tried today to add my only printer to CUPS from a P3 box running Etch. I first used CUPS's own installation wizard (http://localhost:631/admin). I answered all the questions about the printer faithfully. After providing the printer information I was asked for a user name and password, which I provided. Next KDE Wallet asked me if I wanted Wallet to remember my name and password, I complied. When I got to the end, I was told that I had not selected a user and password.
Next I tried to install the printer using kdeprint. I went through the same questions about the printer until I got to the screen with two buttons on it: Test and Settings. I checked the latter and then selected the latter. The application hung. When I was able to close it I found behind it another window asking for a password which I never saw. At this point I looked at the lppasswd help page (http://localhost:631/help/man-lppasswd.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages&QUERY=). It gave me information on how to create a user and password from the command line. So I ran lppasswd -a [my user name] and when asked entered a password. The command returned "Unable to open the password file: Permission denied". I had discovered from the CUPS password help page that passwords are stored in a file named passwd.md5. I then ran "find / -iname passwd.md5" which returned "No such file or directory". What I would really like to do is remove the password entirely, as there are only three computers on our local LAN which only my spouse and I use. One of those computers is still on Sarge; for the version of CUPS used by Sarge it is possible to comment out two lines in the cupsd.conf file which I did. The cupsd.conf for the version of CUPS Etch uses may allow such commenting out, for all I know to the contrary. However the two conf files are sufficiently different that what worked for CUPS on Sarge does not work for CUPS on Etch. Does anybody know how to disable the authentication requirement for CUPS on Etch? If not, can anyone tell me how to get my printer set up with a password if unavoidable? I may say that after upwards of 200 posts on the list about making it possible for novices to use Linux, if not necessarily Debian, primarily by improving the documentation, this kind of problem -- and the others I mentioned in two other posts I made to the list earlier this afternoon -- would not inspire confidence in Linux from a novice. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
