[cups.general] Re: Its just not working?

[Michael Sweet]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Ive changed nothing in the configs,
>> RunAsUser is not set in cupsd.conf.
>> -rwsr-xr-x  1 nobody sys 8532 2004-10-17 21:16 /usr/bin/lppasswd
>> how is the digest password file called?
>> theres nothing with *password* in  /usr/etc/cups/.
>>
> 
> Your lppasswd is SUID nobody, so it runs always as the user nobody, even 
> if you start it as root. It should most probably SUID root (do "chown 
> root.sys /usr/bin/lppasswd; chmod u+s /usr/bin/lppasswd" to fix this). 
> Otherwise users cannot change their passwords and even root cannot set 
> his password.

Actually, it should be setuid to the "lp" user (or whatever user is
configured in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf).  We got rid of the setuid root
requirement a long time ago.

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