unexisted admin password required for setting printer

[Member andfree]

I have installed antiX-21 (base, 32-bit, non-pae), without setting a root password. Now, I want to add a printer at localhost, but it asks for an admin password. What can I do, please?

[Member Robin]

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Try:

sudo service cups status
sudo service cups start

sudo will ask for your user password, not for the root password.

In browser call
http://localhost:631/admin
Click Add printer.
When asked, enter your user name and your user password. Again no root password needed.

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[Member andfree]

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I have a problem with the wi-fi adapter, so I haven’t been able to try, yet.
But I tried with another laptop and I can’t pass the authentication step. No success with root nor with user name & password.

Before that, I had installed cups, cups-client, cups-bsd, hplip, simple-scan & sane-utils
& I had run:

hp-setup -i
sudo adduser username lpadmin
sudo usermod -a -G scanner username
newgrp - scanner
sudo service cups start

as caprea had suggested me in an older topic.

• This reply was modified 12 months ago by andfree.

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