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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: HELP: cups - can not login on localhost to cups server
From:       "Hartmann, O." <ohartman () mail ! zedat ! fu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2010-05-31 17:36:47
Message-ID: 4C040FBB.9000302 () mail ! zedat ! fu-berlin ! de
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On 05/31/10 18:37, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> On 31/05/2010 19:26:07, Hartmann, O. wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> my problem sounds trivial, but isn't. I can not login to my cups server
>> on localhost via http://localhost:631, which worked for me several
>> months ago. Well I installed a new host using FreeBSD 9.0-CUR and need
>> to add printers. Regarding to this problem I found a lot of stuff in the
>> net and mailing lists, but none of the hints and tipps worked for me.
>> First I will describe what I've already did.
>>
>> 1) ensured local BSD lpd is not running
>> 2) on a prior installed system where cups is up and running printing is
>> possible but no administration (see subject), so  the problem seems to
>> be common.
>> 3) followed some hints adding a user "root" with proper password via
>> "lppasswd"
>> 4) deleted password.md5 and performed step 3) again
>> 5) deleted all ports cups-* and /usr/local/cups folder and reinstalled
>> cups, ensured having nothing left in /usr/local/etc
>>
>> The problem occured out of the blue to me, I possibly missed some
>> changes within the last row of updates.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Please eMail me since I'm not subscriber of the "question" list.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>      
> Check /usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups -- change it to use pam_unix rather than
> pam_unknown.  (pam_unknown is, errr..., unknown on FreeBSD...)
> Like this:
>
> auth	required 	pam_unix.so nodelay
> account	required		pam_unix.so
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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I did - and it works!
Thanks a lot.

Oliver
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