to, 2005-09-01 kello 20:28 +0300, Jari Aalto kirjoitti:
> | This looks to me as if the home was exported with root_squash from the
> | server. This will make cups-pdf fail in any case since it uses /home as
> | output directory on Debian.=20

> Correct. Root has no permission remotedly, but he must log into the
> machine who provides the shares. This is security issue, where
> root exploit in some machine does not gain further privileges.

This situation already is fully documented in the package; CUP-PDF
requires that HOME be exported *without* the root_squash NFS option.
Thus, I really dont see why this was reported as a bug; this is a
feature and a requirement.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi


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