[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#410171: Bug#410171: reportbug cupsys reports about unreadable files in /usr/lib/cups/backend-available
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org
Mon Jul 16 14:41:29 UTC 2007
tags 410171 + confirmed
thanks
At Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:25:04 +0100,
Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: cupsys
> Version: 1.2.7-4
> Severity: normal
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 3 11:38 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Aug 3 2006 ../
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 3 11:38 http -> ipp*
> -rwx------ 3 root root 23K Feb 2 14:20 ipp*
> -rwx------ 2 root root 17K Feb 2 14:20 lpd*
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 13K Feb 2 14:20 parallel*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.3K Feb 2 14:20 scsi*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K Feb 2 14:20 serial*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28K Feb 2 14:20 snmp*
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9.9K Feb 2 14:20 socket*
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 14K Feb 2 14:20 usb*
>
> Why are these files unreadable for the world?
At current version, lpd is only one what has an unreadable
permission.
This is a design by upstream. lpd sometimes has to open
port 721 and 731 with root privilege.
CUPS scheduler checks the file permission of backend-daemon
and gives a root privilege if it is inaccessible by normal
user.
Thanks,
--
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org
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