On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:01:13 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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". Did you try this as root? > 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. Configuration differences between versions do happen on *every* OS. You should have a look in the /usr/share/doc/package_name directory, first the README.Debian file (if present) and then the others. Such changes are usually documented. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
