How to run CUPS back-end as root

[Ido Levy]

Thanks !!!

It solved my problem :-)

> On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Ido Levy wrote:
> > I am running RHEL 5.3 with CUPS version 1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.
> >
> > The CUPS daemon, cupsd process, is running as root:
> >   # ps -ef | grep -i cupsd
> >   root     30805     1  0 16:16 ?        00:00:01 cupsd
> > but the back-end I have written is running as the lp user.
> >
> > How can I set the back-end to run as root ?
>
> From:
>
>      http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/api-filter.html
>
> File Permissions
> For security reasons, CUPS will only run filters and backends that are
> owned by root and do not have world write permissions. The recommended
> permissions for filters and backends are 0555 - read and execute but
> no write. Backends that must run as root should use permissions of
> 0500 - read and execute by root, no access for other users. Write
> permissions can be enabled for the root user only.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ido
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