Bug#415872: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#415872: cupsys: ipp and lpd backend files are not world-readable

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 3/22/07, Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud at inpg.fr> wrote:
> Package: cupsys
> Version: 1.2.7-4
> Severity: normal
>
> here is the problem:
>
> -rwx------ 3 root root 23452 fév  2 14:20 /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp
> -rwx------ 2 root root 16648 fév  2 14:20 /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/lpd
>
> There is no good reason to make those files unreadable by users and it
> causes a problem when reporting bugs against cupsys:
>
> $ reportbug cupsys
> [...]
> Verifying package integrity...
> There may be a problem with your installation of cupsys;
> the following files appear to be missing or changed:
> debsums: can't open cupsys file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp (Permission denied)
> debsums: can't open cupsys file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/lpd (Permission denied)
> Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? y
>
>
> It would also prevent the use of debsums independently of reportbug.

Good point.

kmuto, mpitt: should we make these root:lp 4754 then? Or any other mode?

>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686
>
>
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