Bug 11477

Summary:	Non-root printing problem
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Michael Maeder <mike>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Maeder 2002-12-02 04:31:50 UTC

I have latest cups (1.1.17_pre20021025) installed. Printing with root access 
is okay. Printing with normal user access works when invoked like: lpr 
'file-to-print'. If it is invoked through a pipe (e.g. cat 'file' | lpr), 
printing doesn't work. I get: lpr: unable to create temporary file. Error

Some ideas??

mike

Comment 1 Michael Maeder 2002-12-02 07:27:26 UTC

Hi again,

I double-checked the file permission of the lp, lpr, lpq, lprm executables. I 
think they should have the suid and guid bit set.
I changed it, and now it works. Is it a security risk??

Comment 2 Michael Maeder 2002-12-06 02:45:17 UTC

Once again Paul de Vrieze gave me a useful hint. I had some wrong permissions on
my temporary /var/tmp directory.

Changing these permissions to the correct values, reactivated printing through
pipe for normal users.

Thanks Paul

 see ya
    mike

Comment 3 Michael Maeder 2002-12-06 02:46:07 UTC

sorry,

forgot to close the bug

mike