CUPS Administration from localhost:631

[Daniel Neuenschwander DNE]

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Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Daniel Neuenschwander DNE [2005-04-30 10:59 +0200]:
> 
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>>Pluk wrote:
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>>>Pluk Wrote: 
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>>>>sudo adduser cupsys 
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>>>
>>>should be
>>>
>>>
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>>>sudo adduser cupsys shadow
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>>>
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>>Similar to that, you can also run Cupsd as root.
> 
> 
> Don't, unless you have a very good reason for that. Putting cupsys
> into shadow fully enables the web interface without widening the
> potential impact of security holes in Cupsys (there have been a few,
> and for sure there are still dozens) significantly.
> 
> Martin
> 
Yes, I thought that too, but I've got deinstalled sudo on my hoary
server! So what must I do, to run cups as user cupsys with fully
supported webinterface?

Should it be enabled, if I add cupsys to the admin group?

cheers..

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Daniel Neuenschwander DNE
blox development

neuenschwander at dev.erased.ch

Berne, Switzerland

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