[X-Unix] Setting Page Type/Quality

[James Bucanek]

Nigel wrote on Monday, June 28, 2004:
>I have tried to change this via http://127.0.0.1:631 > do 
>administration task> at this point you password is required in earlier 
>version of Panther & Jaguar this never happened.

A security patch (sometime this year) added password authentication to the admin section of the cups web interface.  Unfortunately, cups doesn't seem to be plugged into NetInfo, so none of your user account passwords will work.  Which I suppose makes it pretty darn secure, but not very convenient.  ;)

Edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.  Right at the bottom, you'll see a new access restriction clause that applies to the /admin tree of the web interface:

    <Limit GET>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthClass System
    </Limit>

Just comment that whole thing out and restart cups (sudo /usr/libexec/cups restart).  This will give you access to the admin functions again.

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