11477 – Non-root printing problem

Bug 11477 - Non-root printing problem

Summary: Non-root printing problem

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-02 04:31 UTC by Michael Maeder
Modified:	2011-10-30 23:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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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