[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#680195: base: sudoer not added to lpadmin, cannot add printer

[Jonathan Nieder]

retitle 680195 cups: please document need to add administrator to lpadmin group more clearly
reassign 680195 cups
# documentation
severity 680195 minor
tags 680195 + upstream moreinfo
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Hi Andrej,

R33D3M33R wrote:

> 1. Leave root password blank at install (first user is "ruser" and has administration privileges)
> 2. Login as "ruser" and try to add printer through web interface or system-config-printer-kde (nothing works)
> 3. In webinterface the buttons Find and Add don't work at all, the system-config-printer-kde hangs 
> 4. Error log entries appear in /var/log/cups/error_log: "cupsdAuthorize: Empty Basic password!"
> 5. Add rootuser to lpadmin (I used KUser) and restart
> 6. Adding printer works
>
> I'm not sure if this is intentional or it's a bug, but it could be a major showstopper for new users.

Thanks for reporting.  It's intentional.

What version of cups do you use?  What documentation do you think new
users will first look at when they first run into this problem, and
could it be improved?

Is there some other way to avoid confusion here --- for example,
should there be a debconf prompt that asks if a user should be added
to the lpadmin group?

Hope that helps,
Jonathan