[7768] in testers
Re: printer configuration password request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Seering)
Mon Dec 8 19:37:23 2008
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:34:35 -0500
From: Adam Seering <aseering@MIT.EDU>
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To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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Hm...; my assumption would have been "any valid password for your user
account; but your account has to be in the local 'lpadmin' group" (or
whatever group CUPS @SYSTEM access is granted to these days)... Could
that be it?
Adam
On 12/8/08 6:58 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> I was mostly confused as to what to give it, but that's mostly because I
> don't actually remember any of the passwords for cups.mit.edu. I could
> probably come up with a password for you to try...
>
> Remind me if I forget
>
> - Evan
>
> Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> I believe so. I can verify tomorrow. ISTR discussing this with
>> broder, who was also confused as to what password CUPS was asking for.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:01 PM, William Cattey wrote:
>>
>>> Is this still a problem?
>>>
>>> -wdc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>>>
>>>> I verified this on my machine. I'm not sure what it's asking for (a
>>>> CUPS BasicAuth password?), but the dialog is different than the one
>>>> which prompts for your password if you try and, say, run the Network
>>>> config applet, or run the updater.
>>>>
>>>> As with Alex's experience, it definitely will not accept Kerberos or
>>>> local passwords.
>>>>
>>>> -Jon
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> System -> Administration -> Printing brings up a password request
>>>>> dialog
>>>>> asking for "password for alexp on localhost". It won't accept my
>>>>> Kerberos
>>>>> password or any other, and keeps presenting the dialog until I
>>>>> dismiss it.
>>>>> It does bring up the printer configuration window, but I can't make
>>>>> any
>>>>> changes since the password isn't accepted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>
