Cupsd as normal user

[Michael Sweet]

Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I see that Cups 1.2 does not work as a normal user.
>>  > ...
>>
>> CUPS 1.2 is no different from CUPS 1.1.x or earlier - you can run
>> it as root or as an ordinary user.  The main difference is that the
>> RunAsUser directive has been removed - if you want to run cupsd as
>> an ordinary user, you need to just run it from the ordinary user's
>> account.
> 
> I want to start cupsd from an ordinary user account but that does not work anymore since 1.2. In cups 1.1 this was no problem.
> 
> Can you start cupsd from Cups 1.2 as a normal user on a high port?

Yes, of course.  The "make test" target does exactly that.

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