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Re: Bug#862732: cups-filters: unreadable file /usr/lib/cups/backend/serial



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Le mardi, 16 mai 2017, 15.04:26 h CEST Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> The "serial" backend is a CUPS backend which has to run as root to 
> correctly work. CUPS decides which backends run as roo by the file 
> permissions of the backends. One of the backends which comes with CUPS 
> and has to run as root is the "usb" backend:
> 
> -r-xr--r-- 2 root root 34808 Mar 23 14:55 /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
> 
> This backend is still world-readable and only omits the execution bit 
> for anyone else than root itself (644 permissions). This should also 
> work with the "serial" backend in cups-filters.

Ack, thanks for the explanation. I've fixed this in the upcoming 1.14.0 
experimental upload.

Cheers,
    OdyX

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