Package: cups Version: 2.4.1op1-1 Severity: normal Hello,
On a fresh CUPS install, I logged into the web interface as root to add a printer, and was denied with a 401 Forbidden error. The problem seems to be that root is not a member of a group in @SYSTEM (which by default only includes lpadmin). I understand that Debian has decided that this is not a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616718 but Debian's documentation seems quite misleading and inconsistent on this point. README.Debian states: 'Administration' is where you need to be to set up a local print queue. At some point you will be required to authenticate. A User Name of 'root' and root's password is always acceptable. Any other user must be a member of the lpadmin group. This clearly indicates that root does *not* need to be a member of the lpadmin group. OTOH, 'man cupsd.conf' is more accurate: Note: The 'root' user is not special and must be granted privileges like any other user account. I suggest that the language of the README be modified to resemble that of the man page. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages cups depends on: ii cups-client 2.4.1op1-1 ii cups-common 2.4.1op1-1 ii cups-core-drivers 2.4.1op1-1 ii cups-daemon 2.4.1op1-1 ii cups-filters 1.28.12-1 ii cups-ppdc 2.4.1op1-1 ii cups-server-common 2.4.1op1-1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.79 ii ghostscript 9.55.0~dfsg-3 ii libavahi-client3 0.8-5 ii libavahi-common3 0.8-5 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libcups2 2.4.1op1-1 ii libgcc-s1 12-20220222-1 ii libstdc++6 12-20220222-1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.25-1 ii poppler-utils 20.09.0-3.1 ii procps 2:3.3.17-6 Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.8-5 ii colord 1.4.6-1 Versions of packages cups suggests: pn cups-bsd <none> pn cups-pdf <none> pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none> pn smbclient <none> ii udev 250.3-2 -- debconf information excluded
