Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 2/9/06, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >    In the past I've been able to give root/password info when
> > configuring printers from within http://localhost:631 but now it no
> > longer works. This is true on both of our Gentoo machines.
> >
> >    Has something changed about this in a recent update? I'm assuming
> > some recent update has botched things up.
> >
> >    How do I get it enabled again so taht it asked for the admin passowrd?
>
> You do have cupsd running when this happens eh?
>
>   /etc/init.d/cupsd status to find out
>   /etc/init.d/cupsd start  to start it.

Yes, CUPS is running:

mark@dragonfly ~ $ /etc/init.d/cupsd status
 * status:  started
mark@dragonfly ~ $

It used to be that if I was in Firefox and tried to do something that
required administrator privileges then CUPS/Frefox popped up a dialog
box, I typed in root and root's password, and I was able to make the
change I needed.

It is no longer working on both of our machines and I cannot configure CUPS.

Also, and I find this VERY strange, but the printers we had configured
are still there and I can still print to them, but they are no longer
in printers.conf. How can I have printers working if they are not in
printers.conf? Has Gnome taken all this stuff over and hidden it from
me?

dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Fri Feb  3 21:26:10 2006
dragonfly ~ #

Since there's a date of Feb. 3rd in this file I had been assuming
something happened at that time, but I don't know that's when this
problem specifically happened. I looked at /var/log/emerge and nothing
was emerged on that day. I had emerges on Jan. 30th, and then again on
Feb. 5th.

I don't get it.

Thanks for answering.

Cheers,
Mark

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