At Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:52:04 +0200, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Kurt Pfeifle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> @Debian's CUPS-Patchers: What about properly closing the pipes again > >> your (seetuid root!) helper utility opened? > >> > >> I'm still failing to see where the printing and CUPS-related wisdom of > >> the Debian packagers is superior to the one living in the brains of the > >> CUPS upstream developers. > > > > While I can't comment upon the quality of the patch in question, PAM > > is used for systemwide authentication and authorisation for all > > services on Debian systems, and this must include CUPS. > > I don't question the use of PAM. > > This is all about 'cupsdCallPamAuthHelper'. Which is not part of CUPS > proper, but an invention of Debian packaging in order to make up for > lost features and usability. These were lost by making CUPS on Debian > run as non-root (essentially forking CUPS for no good reason).
FYI, I disabled cupsdCallPamAuthHelper call in Debian cupsys 1.2.12-1 (and closed this bug), because Debian CUPS decided to use root privilege again unlike Ubuntu. Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
