CUPS web interface issues

[HeroRareheart]

I'm trying to set up a print server on an old 32-bit machine running Debian 11. I followed this toutorial for Ubuntu that I followed before on a desktop install before to configure CUPS and samba, however I'm having some struggles now. As the computer being used is garbage I have decided to remotly manage it from another system via SSH and avoide a DE to reduce overhead. Currently I can access the CUPS web interface via 192.168.1.100:631 but what I try to authenticate so that I can do any administration tasks I get a 403 Forbidden error. I have tried to follow several form posts that I found but none of them have solved my problem. My current cupsd.conf is included below:

cupsd.conf

[10leej]

are you logging into an account thats a member of the lpadmin group? Alternatively you could login to the root user (obviously never stay logged in as root for long).

 

https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#webinterface

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS

[HeroRareheart]

11 hours ago, 10leej said:

are you logging into an account thats a member of the lpadmin group?

No I was not, I'll try adding my user to that group.

11 hours ago, 10leej said:

Alternatively you could login to the root user

During the setup I skipped giving the root user a password so I have to do the whole sudo as my user account thing, I'm pretty sure that means I can't log in as the root user.

[HeroRareheart]

12 minutes ago, HeroRareheart said:

No I was not, I'll try adding my user to that group.

That worked flawlessly, just had to reboot after adding myself to lpadmin.

[10leej]

On 8/31/2022 at 3:49 PM, HeroRareheart said:

No I was not, I'll try adding my user to that group.

During the setup I skipped giving the root user a password so I have to do the whole sudo as my user account thing, I'm pretty sure that means I can't log in as the root user.

If you ever want to unlock the root account, just give it a password using a sudoer (a user account that has access to using sudo)

 

sudo passwd root