[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#736970: Weird permissions on backend

[Volker C. Behr]

File permissions 700 root:root are required by CUPS for any backend 
requiring full root-privileges for execution. Not an issue of CUPS-PDF.

Cheers,
Volker

On 01/29/14 06:36, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.6.1-9
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
>
> anthony at Heisenberg:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
> -rwx------ 1 root root 27016 Apr 28  2013 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
>
> This has caused my debsums run as non-root to not be able to check that
> file. There is nothing secret here; it is shipped as part of the package
> and not modified by the administrator. So it should be a+rx, or at least a+r.
>
> PS: Same thing with /usr/lib/cups/backend/serial
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable'), (125, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
> ii  cups            1.7.1-2
> ii  cups-client     1.7.1-2
> ii  ghostscript     9.05~dfsg-8+b1
> ii  libc6           2.17-97
> ii  libpaper-utils  1.1.24+nmu2
>
> cups-pdf recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
> ii  system-config-printer  1.4.3-1
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf changed [not included]
>
> -- no debconf information
>