[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#350668: cupsys: /etc/init.d/cupsys (stop|restart) works only when cupsd is running as root

Yuya Nishihara puro at tcha.org
Sun Jun 11 00:34:30 UTC 2006


Hi,
This bug has already been fixed since 1.2.1-2 at the latest.

> It's because of start-stop-daemon's '--user root' option.

/etc/init.d/cupsys was rewritten?
There's no `--user root' parameter now.

And,
> When cupsd is running as unprivileged user like 'cupsys' by using
> 'RunAsUser' directive on cupsd.conf,

on cups 1.2, `RunAsUser' directive does not exist, so running cupsd
without root privilege would be impossible, maybe.

	Yuya.




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