cupsd ownership?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sun Oct 23 05:50:01 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> The cups was installed by root. And cupsd is run by root too. Is it
> the correct way?

Yes.

> To test whether the quota works, I logged in as a normal user. It
> printed. But all the files in /var/spool/cups/ are owned by root. It
> is said that the quota works for each user based on last non-zero
> number of /var/spool/cups/c0000#. If every file is owned by root, how
> does cupsd determine the usage of quota of different users?

cupsd does its own calculations based on the owner of the job,
separate from any OS-supported disk quotas.

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