[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#616718: cups: Attempting to add a printer gives a forbidden error

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 20:54:55 UTC 2012


On Wed 21 Mar 2012 at 15:30:48 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Brian Potkin wrote:
> > On Wed 21 Mar 2012 at 15:04:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> >> Design bugs are still bugs. :)
> >
> > Indeed. But that isn't the substance of this bug report.
> 
> Ok, let's consider this for a second.  The original submitter reported
> that there were (to him) mysterious "Forbidden" messages and we
> haven't heard from him since.  You gave an explanation of where these
> Forbidden messages might come from and the relevant design flaw.  I
> gave a suggestion for making it less mysterious by patching the
> upstream code to improve the Forbidden message.
> 
> Aren't we all talking about the same bug?

Yes. Perhaps I put it badly. I don't really know whether there is a
design flaw in the treatment of unauthorised logins but a more
informative error message cannot be bad. The mystery would less opaque
if lpadmin was mentioned. I think we are agreed though that it is
upstream which would have to deal with it.

Cheers,

Brian.





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