CUPS & laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network - one remaining problem

[David Southwell]

I have had a posting on the Cups list from Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> 
who has suggested the problem is something to do with my pam configuration.
Thanks in advance for further guidance:
> Thanks Michael - it looks as though you may have put your finger on the
> problem -- but I am not certain how to react to it!!! (see below)
> 
> > On Dec 10, 2009, at 5:34 AM, David Southwell wrote:
> > > Thanks to some help from people on one of the freebsd lists  I have
> > > finally succeeded in getting cups the server to communicate with the
> > > printer and print.
> > > HOWEVER!!
> > >
> > > One minor niggling problem remains. I still cannot communicate with the
> > > cups management interface on http://localhost:631 due to password
> > > authentication failure. So the title of this thread is still very
> > > relevant.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help with the problem.
> > >
> > > To bring readers up to date:
> > >
> > > I try logging in as 'root' with correct root password in the login
> > > dialogue.
> > >
> > > I altered the loglevel to debug and the output is at the end of this
> > > post.
> > >
> > > It seems as though the cupsd is not receiving the input (probably due
> > > to some config error on my part!). I have tried using a number of
> > > different browsers but get the same result.
> > >
> > > Prior to testing I did:
> > >
> > > dns1# lppasswd -g wheel -a root
> > > The standard cups error log showed
> > > cupsdAuthorize: pam_start() returned 4 (system error)!
> >
> > OK, so you have a PAM configuration error most likely - check that the
> >  /etc/pam.d/cups file is consistent with the other PAM files in
> > /etc/pam.d (i.e. using the correct security modules...)
> 
> ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> There is no /etc/pam.d/cups file !!
> 
> There is a
> /usr/local/etc/pam.d/cups
> 
> which has the following lines:
> auth	required	pam_unknown.so nodelay
> account	required	pam_unknown.so
> 
> Shown below is ls -l for each directory!
> 
> Wanted --- good model for pam.d/cups and where to put it!!! <chuckles>
> 
> [NB This is a freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64 system with intel quad core.]
> dns1# ls -l /etc/pam.d/
> total 38
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2907 May  1  2009 README
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   322 May  1  2009 atrun
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   199 May  1  2009 cron
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel   547 May  1  2009 ftp
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  wheel   547 May  1  2009 ftpd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   467 May  1  2009 gdm_disabled
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   365 May  1  2009 imap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   467 May  1  2009 kde
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   374 May  1  2009 login
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   662 May  1  2009 other
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   319 May  1  2009 passwd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   365 May  1  2009 pop3
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   328 May  1  2009 rsh
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   739 May  1  2009 sshd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   380 May  1  2009 su
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   705 May  1  2009 system
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   754 May  1  2009 telnetd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   532 May  1  2009 xdm
> 
> dns1# ls -l /usr/local/etc/pam.d
> total 16
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   69 Dec 10 09:19 cups
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  672 Dec  7 10:06 gdm
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   98 Nov 29 17:42 gnome-screensaver
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  135 Nov  4 22:09 polkit
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  135 Dec  2 09:00 polkit-1
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  399 Sep 27 18:20 sudo
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  399 Sep 27 18:20 sudo.default
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   98 Nov  5 03:22 xscreensaver
> 

Maybe someone who is versed in the intricacies of pam.d on freebsd 7.2 p3 
amd64 might be willing to point me in the right direction. 

Thanks

David