Incompatible with backend drivers needing to be root
Bug #56594 reported by
Hadmut Danisch
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #36093: needs to be fixed to work with cupsd running as non-root.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| cupsys (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cupsys
Hi,
I found that backend drivers like cups-pdf do not work under ubuntu with cupsys, since the cups daemon runs as user cupsys (in contrast to root under debian). It therefore calls drivers like /usr/lib/
cups-pdf needs root permissions in order to write into user's home directories.
Setting cups-pdf to setuid root make it work again, but could open security holes, so access should be limited to group cupsys.
regards
Hadmut
Revision history for this message
| Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in cupsys: | |
| importance: | Untriaged → Medium |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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Thanks for report.