[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#425944: Bug#425944: "cupsdCallPamAuthHelper" is a Debian bug!

Kenshi Muto kmuto at debian.org
Sun Jul 15 12:41:44 UTC 2007


At Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:52:04 +0200,
Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> writes:
> >> @Debian's CUPS-Patchers: What about properly closing the pipes again
> >> your (seetuid root!) helper utility opened?
> >>
> >> I'm still failing to see where the printing and CUPS-related wisdom of
> >> the Debian packagers is superior to the one living in the brains of the
> >> CUPS upstream developers.
> >
> > While I can't comment upon the quality of the patch in question, PAM
> > is used for systemwide authentication and authorisation for all
> > services on Debian systems, and this must include CUPS.
> 
> I don't question the use of PAM.
> 
> This is all about 'cupsdCallPamAuthHelper'. Which is not part of CUPS
> proper, but an invention of Debian packaging in order to make up for
> lost features and usability. These were lost by making CUPS on Debian
> run as non-root (essentially forking CUPS for no good reason).

FYI, I disabled cupsdCallPamAuthHelper call in Debian cupsys 1.2.12-1
(and closed this bug), because Debian CUPS decided to use root privilege
again unlike Ubuntu.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org




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