I’m trying to setup a cups printing server, but I want the default admin to not be root. Google has given me a couple hints and the cups administration page a little further but I’m now stuck at the end.
What I want is a user called admin who belongs to the group printadmin as cups server administrator.
What I have done
I have created a local user called admin user yast user interface , and a group called printadmin. Added admin to the group printadmin
I changed the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
SystemGroup sys root
to
SystemGroup printadmin
Changed all instances of of Authtype from Basic to Digest (Allows me to have a file called passwd.md5 in /etc/cups/ with the name of the allowed cups admins inside)
Ran the following command to create and add admin.
lppasswd -a -g printadmin admin
This is what I receive after running the command
lppasswd -a -g printadmin administrator
Enter password:
Enter password again:
lppasswd: Die Kennwortdatei wird verwendet!
Unfortunately /etc/cups/passwd.md5 doesn’t get created or used ( touch /etc/cups/passwd.md5) I can’t seem to get it to work to change the main admin user. Ne1 have a good guide or knows how to get this to work?
If I could figure out how to edit my post, then I could probably mark this thread as solved.
I just changed the Authtype back to Basic ( so that it looks into the systems /etc/passwd) restarted the cups daemon, and I was able to log in as admin and root was disabled. Problem solved, although I would still like to know why lppasswd didn’t work.
I remember an old thread concerning the owenership of lppasswd. It is owned by user ‘lp’, group ‘sys’. It is explained how to change ownership, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to setup a cups printing server, but I want the default
> admin to not be root. Google has given me a couple hints and the cups
> administration page a little further but I’m now stuck at the end.
That’s a good idea.
> What I want is a user called admin who belongs to the group printadmin
> as cups server administrator.
>
> What I have done
> 1) I have created a local user called admin user yast user interface ,
> and a group called printadmin. Added admin to the group printadmin
I would advise against a user named “admin”, use some other name not
so easy to guess.
Maybe I’m too paranoid
I see you got it solved, but one further comment:
> > lppasswd -a -g printadmin administrator
> > Enter password:
> > Enter password again:
> > lppasswd: Die Kennwortdatei wird verwendet!
> >
You got the answer in German; in order to post things into not
German help forums, it is better to get the result in English; you do
not need to change the language of your system, just run the command
like this:
~# LANG=en_US.UTF-8 lppasswd -a -g printadmin administrator
I mention this because I do not know what you got, so I can’t guess
what the problem with lppasswd is.
