CUPS 1.2.x and privileges
Volker Behr
vrbehr at cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Tue May 16 04:24:59 PDT 2006
Hi,
in CUPS 1.2.x the scheduler option "RunAsUser" has been removed for security reasons. Since I am employing a special backend (CUPS-PDF) which needs to assume different UIDs during execution it relays on being started with root UID.
Is there any alternative way CUPS provides now with version 1.2.x which allows to grant backends full root privileges for their execution?
Since the backend is supposed to run on different OS platforms a setting of permissions via SELinux or similar won't work and flagging a backend suid-root does not seem a really good idea to me.
I am looking forward to your comments,
Volker
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