I put the mentioned lines back in the cupsd.conf file and I changed the Allow from 127.0.0.1 line to the ip of my pc. I uncommented the SystemGroup sys line and created a cupsadmin user with sys as his primary group. Then I restarted cups.
Now I am prompted to logon when I try to access the cups admin web interface (I was not before.) I can logon with cupsadmin, but the images are still not displayed and I can't access the manage printers page. The /var/log/cups/access_log is full of messages like this: 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/left.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/right.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/add-class.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/manage-classes.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/manage-jobs.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/add-printer.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:11:50 -0500] "GET /images/manage-printers.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:03 -0500] "GET /printers/ HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:06 -0500] "GET /cups.css HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:06 -0500] "GET /images/navbar.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:06 -0500] "GET /images/left.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/right.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/add-class.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/manage-classes.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/manage-jobs.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/add-printer.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 10.5.8.76 - cupsadmin [23/May/2007:14:12:07 -0500] "GET /images/manage-printers.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 0 I changed the permissions on /usr/doc/cups-1.1.23/ to 755, and restarted cups, but it did not seem to make a difference. Do I need to alter the permissions on some other file system? Russ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:09 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: CUPS printing help >>> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 1:58 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , "Jones, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Slack/390 10.1 in an LPAR. I am trying to use CUPS to set > up a network printer. I commented out the following lines in the > cupsd.conf file that restrict remote CUPS admin and require > authentication. That probably wasn't a good idea. If you don't want to send root's password over the network, then uncomment this in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf SystemGroup sys Then add a user, say cupsadmin, with sys as their primary group. > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from 127.0.0.1 > > AuthType Basic > AuthClass System Put all these statements back in. Change the "Allow from 127.0.0.1" to "Allow from xx.xx.xx.xx/24" or whatever subnet you want to accept logins from. Restart cupsd. Login as cupsadmin to do any administration work. > I am now able to get to the main admin page at myip:631/admin, but none > of the images on the page are being displayed. I can get to the "add new > printer" and "add new classes" pages, but when I attempt to access the > "manage printers" and "manage classes" pages, I get an http 403 > forbidden error. Look in /var/log/cups/access_log and /var/log/cups/error_log. See what exactly is getting the 403 error. Check the permissions on those directories and files. If they're not 755, they probably should be. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
