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[Helge Blischke]

Troels Arvin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Why does cupsd run as root? - Couldn't it change to a dedicated user after
> having aquired the relevant port(s)? ntpd, named, and others do this.
> 
> I want to run cupsd as a non-root user to minimize the impact if a
> security hole is found in Cups.
> 

Specify

RunAsUser

in your cupsd.conf. Of course you must define the user and group
names by the respecive directives.

Helge

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