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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:21 pm    Post subject: Printer setup suddenly asking for user and password
Subject description: The solution to the dreaded lpadmin problem in 10.5.7
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Seems like a fair number of you guys have been recently seeing some problems with changing printers or setting up new ones in OS X 10.5.7.
You will get a prompt saying something about "lpadmin permissions" and you enter your admin user and password.. and the problem doesn´t go away.. Shocked as this info is discarded.

And yes, I know some of you have been reinstalling the system a trillion times, and even changed disk drives and audio interfaces and RAM and what have you and still not figured out the real problem.


Anyways, what is really needed here is telling the system that it has to update the lpadmin group so it supports the GUID membership scheme. You won´t get access to the printer stuff unless you do so.

You need to start a session in Terminal ( with a user that has admin privs, then you enter this:

dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin

You will be promted for your admin password, you hit return and the output will look like this:

'_lpadmin' upgraded to new group format in order to support GUID membership

Not experiencing any problems yet? And running a recent version of OS X like 10.5.7?

Do this anyway. You won´t destroy the system if you do so. The output as shown above will show up if the command is needed and the upgrade is actually run. If the command is not needed then you won´t see the output and nothing is actually done.


Scared of typing this in manually? You simply copy/paste the command.

Again:


dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin



Hurrah! Laughing

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

You crazy boy, you! Ta!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Printer setup suddenly asking for user and password
Subject description: The solution to the dreaded lpadmin problem in 10.5.7
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elektro80 wrote:

Not experiencing any problems yet? And running a recent version of OS X like 10.5.7?

Do this anyway.


do you know the proverb that says "Don't fix it if it ain't broken" Question

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Well, sure.. but most likely it is "broken" and if not then the fix won´t do anything wrong anyways.

Idea Did you try this? Very Happy

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

elektro80 wrote:

Idea Did you try this? Very Happy

I don't even think about it Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Just like this ?

Code:
Last login: Wed Jul 15 22:47:23 on ttys000
labtobbe4:~ jan$ dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin
Please enter user password:
'_lpadmin' upgraded to new group format in order to support GUID membership.
labtobbe4:~ jan$



or should I have done it as root?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Blue Hell wrote:
Just like this ?

Code:
Last login: Wed Jul 15 22:47:23 on ttys000
labtobbe4:~ jan$ dseditgroup -o edit -p -a admin -t group _lpadmin
Please enter user password:
'_lpadmin' upgraded to new group format in order to support GUID membership.
labtobbe4:~ jan$



or should I have done it as root?



Right! Very Happy

And it looks fine to me. You must have logged in with an admin user.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

elektro80 wrote:
And it looks fine to me. You must have logged in with an admin user.


I'm allowed to install stuff and do upgrades, so I guess Rolling Eyes

Pretty new to to this, and not sure where the user/admin/root boundaries are exactly ... I'm not allowed for instance to make changes to the hosts file, changes there need root privs ... which seems odd coming from windows (even when I can see a point to this).

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Blue Hell wrote:
I'm not allowed for instance to make changes to the hosts file, changes there need root privs ...


sudo pico /etc/hosts

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

elektro80 wrote:

Idea Did you try this? Very Happy


Shocked

I did Exclamation

Wink

nothing exploded Exclamation

Cool

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

dewdrop_world wrote:
Blue Hell wrote:
I'm not allowed for instance to make changes to the hosts file, changes there need root privs ...


sudo pico /etc/hosts


Sorry, should have been more clear maybe. I meant that I could not do it with my own account. And indeed pico works great on it once being root.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Doesn´t sudo nano /etc/hosts work?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Uh.. and you might want to do

lookupd -flushcache

In order to ditch the old stuff and also reload the hosts file.

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