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CUPS password issues
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ScotHamedia
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Dec 9, 2004, 02:05 AM
 
If you go to 127.0.0.1:631 in a browser, you should get to the CUPS admin for your printers. Try to do to some pages and you are asked for a password. roots password does not work, which I have enabled. There are some reports googling around with others having the same issue, but no solutions other than to remove the auth directive from the config file.

I would like to know why this is happening, it did not happen a few months ago to me, but i have since done a clean install. I would like to know the correct way to fix it.
     
Jellytussle
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Dec 10, 2004, 04:12 AM
 
This is because CUPS doesn't understand the encryption system for user passwords that Panther uses. I'll bet that your old system was a 10.2 upgrade, so you had a crypt password. Your clean install gave you a shadow one. Editing /etc/cups/cups.conf is the only way to go. I believe this is addressed in Tiger.
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