[cups.general] Re: PassEnv directive not working?

[Michael Sweet]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:09:59PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>>  PassEnv KDEDIR
>>>  PassEnv HOME
>>>  PassEnv PWD
>>>  PassEnv QTDIR
>>>  PassEnv HISTSIZE
>>>  PassEnv SHELL
>>>  PassEnv OSTYPE
>>>
>>> into cupsd.conf, and try to see them noted in the error_log startup
>>> protocol, or amongst the enumeration like
>> (it only works if the corresponding environment variable is actually
>> defined when you run cupsd...)
> 
> I believe what Kurt expected was for the client's environment to be
> transmitted to the CUPS server by lp/lpr and then have the CUPS
> server export them for its subprocesses.

OK, well, that will never happen (aside from questions of
implementation, that could be a serious security hole...)

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