[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#459731: Bug#459731: Permission error on ipp/http and lpr backend...

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Martin Pitt
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> Some backends need to be 700 so that cupsys executes them as root

Ah, oh, ... sorry but i was not aware of that.


> (btw, 'lpr' does not exist -- do you mean 'lpd'?). So I think we

Surely yes, excuse me for the typo. ;(


> should rather do it the other way round and install beh as 0700. After
> you do
>   chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/{ipp,http,lpd,beh}
> do things still work as you expect?

Yes, after that all continue to work as expected.


beh are on foomatic-filters package, bugs have to be forwarded to that
package?


Seems also that bug got a bit complex to fix... i think that beh have
to replicate the cups logic of execute as root 700 backend, and drop
privilege for 755 one.

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