tags 371143 pending thanks ke, 2006-06-07 kello 13:34 +0100, Matthew Exley kirjoitti: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 2.2.0-1 > Severity: important > > > As delivered, cups-pdf will not work on Cups > 1.2.0 because of the > permissions of the back end. > Per documentation at: > http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ > > I note the following: > > > *** Starting with version 1.2.0 CUPS implements the "RunAsOption" no longer. > > In order to ensure CUPS-PDF is running with the required root privileges you > > have to make 'root' the owner of the cups-pdf backend and set the file > > permissions of the backend to 0700 (root only). > > The delivered backend, /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf, is owned by root but > has > permissions rwxr-xr-x, leading to messages of the form: > [Job 5] cups-pdf cannot be called without root privileges! > ..in /var/log/cups/error_log > > > The fix is to add the command: > chmod 0700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf > > ...to the packages postinst if it's being installed alongside cupsys > 1.2.0
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I'll upload a new package with the correct permissions shortly. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
