[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #1565: /etc/cups/mime.convs should be world readable

twaugh.redhat twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Apr 14 15:26:46 PDT 2006


[STR New]

/etc/cups/mime.convs should be world readable, otherwise programs like
hp-sendfax can not run.

[bjohnson at localhost ~]$ hp-sendfax
 [ERROR]: Coverpages disabled. Reportlab not installed.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.10)
PC Sendfax Utility ver. 1.7

Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-sendfax", line 369, in ?
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/bin/hp-sendfax", line 344, in main
    job_size)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/faxsendjobform.py", line 124, in __init__
    self.allowable_mime_types = cups.getAllowableMIMETypes()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/prnt/cups.py", line 109, in getAllowableMIMETypes
    conv_file = file(f, 'r')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/cups/mime.convs'

(from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189029)

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1565
Version: 1.2rc2





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