Permissions in /var/spool/cups

[Michael Sweet]

Carstensen wrote:
> Hello, I'm using openSuSE 10.2 with cups-1.2.7-3.3. Is there a way to make cups give read-permission to the control-files in /var/spool/cups for any user or at least for group-members? I tried a lot, it's always like:
> -rw------- 1 root lp     645 Jan 23 13:46 c01038
> I think in former versions cups was run by user lp, so the owner of the control-files was lp - this would help too.

There is no way to do this, and we will not add an option for this
as it is a security issue.

Use IPP operations (IPP_GET_JOB_ATTRIBUTES or IPP_GET_JOBS) to access
the attributes in these files.

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