Samsung Printer CLP-500

[Thomas Kaiser]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 09:03 -0800, Vram wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:20 +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I can answer my own question. To get root right for the cups web
> > frontend we have to issue:
> > #sudo adduser cupsys shadow
> > #sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
> > 
> > After that, I was able to add the printer with "sudo linux-config".
> > 
> > Regards, Thomas
> 
> 
> Good detective work...
> 
> 
> I am just a bit confused...
> 
> >#sudo adduser cupsys shadow
> 
> Why did you have to manually add cupsys?
> <This user should have been added by the system when it installed>

This command adds cupsys to the shadow group to enable the login for
administration tasks.
See http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2016&goto=nextnewest

Regards, Thomas

> 
> And what does shadow do in that command?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Vram
> 
>