On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:04:23PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 16:42 -0500, Zach Uram wrote: > > I am using http://localhost:631/admin and click Add Printer and select > > HP960C and the hplip driver then when I apply it says: 413 Request > > Entity Too Large > > > > I am running firefox as root so I don't know why it is failing. I also > > tried running gnome-cups-manager as root which calls gnome-cups-add > > and it says: > <snip> > > Not sure what that would mean, so I can't provide any help there. > > But, when I run the browser based GUI, I do it as me, not root. Then, > when I do something that requires root permission to perform, the GUI > pops up a logine box, I enter 'root' and the root password. > > Could be it's not working for you because the root login permissions let > you run things, but the permissions aren't correctly propagated to the > Apache server side?
It should be sufficient to be a member of group lpadmin; there's no need to be root to manage CUPS, in my experience. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org