Cups-1.2.6 will not accept my root password[solved]

orange_juice · Last edited by orange_juice on Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hallo,

I have configured cups-1.2.6 according to the Gentoo Printing Guide for my USB printer.

I ran CUPS, I connected to the server from localhost:631, I saw that CUPS has recognized my printer and I pushed the relevant button in order to install it. It automatically chose the correct driver and then, I was prompted for username and password...

Userame: root
Password: ****************** (Which is the correct password)

zip!

cat /var/log/cups/error_log

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Have you got an old cupsd.conf installed? You might like to save your present one and then copy cupsd.conf.default to cupsd.conf and try again.

The Gentoo CUPS 1.2.X is configured (during emerge) for "SystemGroup lpadmin".

The usual setting for access (in the 1.2.X cupsd.conf) to admin/conf is "AuthType Basic"

orange_juice · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your aswer... I forgot to mention that I did that too... unfortunatelly, I had no results.

:?:

Kind regards,
orange_juice

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

If you've got "AuthType Basic"", would you like to add another user with a simple password (make the shell /bin/false to stop the user being a security loophole), make the user a member of lpadmin and try and add your printer again.

I'm sure you type the root password faultlessly

â I sometimes run through all three tries before I get it right as the fingers are so used to it they get out of sync.
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orange_juice · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

b1f30 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 262 Location: USA

net-print/cups-1.2.6

I'm having the same exact issue - I can configure everything to my heart's content - but then when it asks me for username and password (aka, i use root here), I get 'Connection refused' or 'Connection reset by peer'.

Hrm...
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

I see the errors which seem to be when you try and run something to do with admin but the log level is still at info.

Could you change it to debug and then extract the messages which occur when you try and get CUPS to accept the configuration change, please?

Could you also post the messages you get in access_log for the same thing?
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Thank you, it does seem to have yielded some fruit

orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

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orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject:

OK...

I have set debug2, however, it produces dozens of pages!

Bump! :roll:

The computer with the problem is an AMD64. I have an x86 which has no problem at all.

Is this possible to be a platform specific issue?

EDIT:
I grepped for username and I found the relevant entry:

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Yes, debug2 really gives you everything and it's difficult to separate out the bits you need.

grepping for cupsdCheckGroup should find the bits where it is handling the usename/password.

I notice

orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

All my operations are performed from localhost:631.

I grepped for cupsdCheckGroup but I did not find anything...! Do you have any idea why?

Thank you for your help and patience!

Kind regards,
orange_juice

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

For some reason â finding it will solve your problem â your installation and the one here are behaving differently.

cups-1.2.7 here (1.2.6 shouldn't make any difference), you have replaced your cupsd.conf with the cupsd.conf.default which came with 1.2.6.

Hmm, I missed "pam_authenticate()" from your first post, obviously using /etc/passwd to authenticate root.

And you've run the emerge instructions from nightmorph's post.

I can't think what there could be that is different.

I'll try downgrading an AMD64 machine to 1.2.6, running the emerge instructions and adding a USB printer. Hasta la vista

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orange_juice · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:34 am Post subject:

orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject:

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Have a look to see if there are any relevant error messages in /var/log: I don't have a default syslog-ng.conf here but it looks as it everything, including LOG_AUTH and LOG_AUTHPRIV messages go to /var/log/messages.

If you are still stuck, put a message in the CUPS Forums at http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php: cups.general would be a good place.
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orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

The only message I found is:

orange_juice · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

OK!
Solved it...

I have put