[ale] Printer troubles

[Tim Watts]

I added a user via lppasswd, started the printer and happiness returned. 
Thanks guys.

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 07:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Tue January 24 2006 10:59 pm, Tim Watts wrote:
> > Does "stopped" mean disabled or just idle? /dev/usb/lp0 definitely
> > exists:
>
> looks like it is disabled.
>
> > crw-rw---- ?1 root lp 180, 0 2004-10-01 23:17 /dev/usb/lp0
> >
> > When I click on the "Start Printer" link I get an Authorization
> > Dialog but no username/passwords seem to work (not even root!) How
> > do I find out what a valid login would be?
>
> that would be lppwasswd: man lppasswd
>  lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        lppasswd [ -a ] [ -g groupname ] [ -x ] [ username ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        lppasswd  adds,  changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS
> digest password file,
>        passwd.md5. When run by a normal user, lppasswd will prompt for
> the old and  new
>        passwords.  When  run by the super-user, lppasswd can add new
> accounts (-a user?
>        name), change existing accounts (username), or delete accounts
> (-x username)  in
>        the digest password file. Digest usernames do not have to match
> local UNIX user?
>        names, but only UNIX usernames are supported by the CUPS client
> programs (lp(1),
>        lpr(1), etc.)