CUPS Authentication for Admin on localhost:631 interface
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I have searched quite a bit, saw the one response that purported to have a solution to this but it did not work in my case. My Brother printer is not shown in CUPS so I go to Admin->Add Printer it gives me the User Name/Password popup with refuses to recognize my user name on the machine. This is a brand new install of 13.1. My Restrict Access to the admin pages section has:
Order allow, deny Allow localhost
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