[cups.general] Q. Proper way to startup cupsd as a non-root user as opposed to debian hacks?

[wtautz]

Michael, Does cups allow running as a non-root user? Obviously
I know I could just start it up as a non-root user but that clearly
implies it would have limited capabilities from the start.

Most daemons that run as a non-root user usually start up
as root and then exec a child with lesser priviledges *after*
they checked things like permissions and the like.

The debian boys have hardwired the userid cupsys into
the code. It would be nice if there were a way to do this
in a cleaner way using your original source. Perhaps a compile
time define or perhaps the USER variable could be used to
identify the userid that cupsd should run as? I know
you've deprecated RunAsUser but....

Thoughts?

walter
ps. Haven't extensively grepped through the code so perhaps
this feature is already there but isn't documented?