Cupsd as normal user

Paul van der Vlis paul at vandervlis.nl
Wed Nov 29 02:05:34 PST 2006


> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see that Cups 1.2 does not work as a normal user.
>  > ...
>
> CUPS 1.2 is no different from CUPS 1.1.x or earlier - you can run
> it as root or as an ordinary user.  The main difference is that the
> RunAsUser directive has been removed - if you want to run cupsd as
> an ordinary user, you need to just run it from the ordinary user's
> account.

I want to start cupsd from an ordinary user account but that does not work anymore since 1.2. In cups 1.1 this was no problem.

Can you start cupsd from Cups 1.2 as a normal user on a high port?

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.







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