Bug#878867: cups-filters: unreadable file /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf
Control: tags -1 + upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/pull/32
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, on jeu. 19 oct. 2017 21:04:17 +0200, wrote:
> Le mardi, 17 octobre 2017, 23.08:52 h CEST Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Yes, this is on purpose, just like in the cups-pdf package: it has to be
> > run as root.
>
> Right, but couldn't CUPS (be changed to) use a different heuristic than the
> filter's access rights to determine if it has to be run as root?
Well, perhaps, it's to be seen with CUPS. For the matter at stake,
since CUPS doesn't look at the read permission, so we can actually
enable that, I have made an upstream pull request in that direction.
Samuel
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