Bug#427559: problems with your proposal of suid root backend runner

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Jerome, Jerome Alet [2007-06-07 21:42 +0200]: > Martin, you suggest a suid root backend to launch other CUPS > backends as root. Only as a temporary workaround. > This is not really possible as far as I know, for several reasons : It does work, since cups itself uses it for lpd. > the easie

Bug#427559: problems with your proposal of suid root backend runner

2007-06-07 Thread Jerome Alet
Martin, you suggest a suid root backend to launch other CUPS backends as root. This is not really possible as far as I know, for several reasons : - Your suid backend MUST be present in /usr/lib/cups/backend for CUPS to accept to launch it. (unless you modify CUPS heavily) - This