cups configuration

[Timothy Murphy]

François Patte wrote:

> I want to define for sometimes this printer as the default one. In that
> case the cups web interface (http://localhost:631) asks for the root
> password.

Yes, why is the CUPS user/password set to be root?
If it is always root, why not just ask for the root password?

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