[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2445: Web Interface shouldindicate serious errors

[Michael Sweet]

Florian Liekweg wrote:
> ...
> Well, it should be :-)  It would follow the principle of least privilege and
> would limit the consequences of possible malfunctions and exploits to files
> and devices owned by the 'cups' user.

Well, come up with a way for cupsd to still support Kerberos, PAM,
LPD, and proxy authentication for jobs and the web interface without
running as root and without hacks like setuid programs that are run
every time someone authenticates and we'll be happy to incorporate it
into CUPS.

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