[cups.general] How does cupsd determine user.group it runs as?

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Mon May 15 13:51:53 PDT 2006


Can cups run as root? How does it figure out what user to run.
I'm running on Dapper/Ubuntu and the init script looks like
suggests cups looks at the owner ship of directory where
it's PID file is located?


How does printing to an RFC compliant lpd server work? Presumably
I need to run as root.





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