Can't Login to localhost:631 (CUPS Printing) in Suse 9.3

Desert · 07-25-2005, 07:42 PM

When I get to localhost:631 and click on the links for administrative work, it naturally asks for a password. I enter "root" as the username and my root password, can't log in. I've tried all the other username and password combinations I could think of. It worked for Samba (localhost:901). Is CUPS just different?

ozar · 07-25-2005, 09:54 PM

Are you sure CUPS is running?

Desert · 07-25-2005, 10:53 PM

YaST System Services (Runlevel) says "Yes" without an asterisk.

And checkout my other cry for help on a similar topic ;-)

random_junk · 08-18-2005, 08:20 PM

This is due to an error in the CUPS configuration, as far as I can tell... I had this same problem, and had to either use "su kprinter" or use lynx running as root, in order to do printer administration.

Today, I found the cause of it - a mistake in the default settings in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Look for the line

Code:

AuthType BasicDigest

and change it to

Code:

AuthType Digest

or

Code:

AuthType Basic

After that, you should be able to log in to http://localhost:631/admin with your root username and password, as expected.