maybe I spoke too soon.......
could I just 'useradd cups'? it is actually a site that needs to be accessed:

      CUPS at localhost.localdomain

as you most likely know.
the dialog window says:

    You need to supply a username and password to access this site.

On Saturday 23 December 2006 6:51 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
  

I use mepis. It was before ubuntu but I think they've adopted ubuntu since
root's password doesn't work (unless I'm entering the wrong user name).

Uh-ohhhhhhhh...... entering into shadow group? I know what you are talking
about but entering it is beyond me. My skills are lacking!

On Saturday 23 December 2006 8:30 am, chip33az@netscape.net wrote:
    

If you are using Ubuntu, you have to add the user, cups (or cupsys) to
the shadow group and then restart CUPS.

Debian should allow you to use the root account.
      

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$ adduser cupsys shadow
- one of adduser's nice little features is that it will add a user to a group.

$ /etc/init.d/cupsys restart