[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#502624: cups-pdf: "Test page" from web interface should use real user instead of 'anonymous'

Martin-Éric Racine martin-eric.racine at iki.fi
Tue Dec 23 20:06:55 UTC 2008


> Otherwise one can't print a test page when 'anonymous' is disabled in
> cups-pdf configuraiton file. Moreover, no errors are reported either
> in web interface or log files in this case.

> Looking at the completed jobs I conclude that Etch version used real
> users to print test pages. So, this sudden change after upgrade to Lenny
> confused me while I was trying to locate the printed test page in ~/PDF
> folder.

This report seems to confuse too many issues. Let's divide those into
smaller blocks:

1. what user should be used to generate the test page? (a CUPS issue)

2. where should the test page file be saved to? (a CUPS-PDF issue)

3. whether CUPS-PDF should be dependent upon the AnonUser being
enabled to produce a test page?
a) if yes, should it print an error message to alert the administrator
that, when AnonUser is disabled, it cannot produce the test page?
b) if not, which system user should be used to produce the test page?
(all those are CUPS-PDF issues)

Fellow CUPS maintainers and the CUPS-PDF upstream author are welcome
to comment if I forgot anything.

Martin-Éric


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