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A fix for broken CUPS admin interface login in 10.3
Authored by: squirri on Aug 26, '05 10:04:37AM

I had the same authentication problem in Panther, trying to use CUPS to let our Windows machines print to a USB HP840C Inkjet, following a hint I found here.

I used the second methos as it seemed to be a bit more secure(not that I'm a Unix expert).

The hint then worked as advertised.

When I moved up to Tiger, I did a clean install after backing up my data(there were a few settings that had got into a mess) and tried the first method - commenting out the 4 lines in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

This worked a treat.

Not sure which is the most secure, but the first method is much simpler and less error prone as it doesn't involve cutting and pasting password hashes. I guess you could un-comment out these lines to put the security back where it was



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