Comment 9 for bug 532053

Hi,

I have seen some posts which say to execute (as root):

chattr -i /etc/cups/printers.conf

after commenting out the password line, to stop the automatic cups authentication from incorrectly changing it (due to some other cups authentication problem). If you have in fact done that at some time, you will get:

lsattr /etc/cups/printers.conf
----i-------------- /etc/cups/printers.conf

If you have the i flag set, the file cannot be deleted - even by root.
To fix it, execute:

chattr -i /etc/cups/printers.conf

You should then get:

lsattr /etc/cups/printers.conf
------------------- /etc/cups/printers.conf

HTH
Andrew