CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized

I have a new Fedora 6 install that when using cups to add a printer I receive this error in the error-log. Needless to say the printer does not get installed.

Thanks,

did you log into CUPS administrator mode as root?

also, why don't you use the System->Administration->Printers thingy to set up printers instead of CUPS

yea, there is something weird with CUPS, if you try and do something to the setup you get those errors, but if you click the admin link then click over to what you want it will ask for your pass and get around the error

Thank you for the suggestions. Is there a way to allow all users to access the cups printers? I gave up trying to add the printer through the cups web interface. I downloaded an application from the Canon website and after the application installs it gives me



[Edit] I do log in as root.[/Edit]

Thanks,

are you perhaps trying to admin it from another computer, by default admin stuff only works on localhost, if you want to do it remotely i would suggest you ssh in and forward some port to 631 and admin it like that

as for access control (which I'm not sure you actually need, most [all?] distros share all printers by default..i think)

but if you need more control edit the cups config, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf at least that's the file on my system, and restart cups when your done

I am using my laptop and I have the root password. I do log in as root because I don't want to have any doubts about authorization. There is no need to ssh. The error comes form an executable I got from canon.

Thanks,

I was trying to add the cups-pdf printer using the cups admin page. After I put in all the details and click submit. It would ask for my authentication four times and then the page would go blank. Looking at the logs I saw it was giving the "CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized" error. I don't have a root password nor do I want to add one. The solution I found was to add my username to the lpadmin group mentioned in the cups config file.
"sudo adduser <yourusername> lpadmin"
This allowed the add printer wizard in the admin webpage to complete with no problem.

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