tags 616718 + moreinfo
thanks
On Sun 06 Mar 2011 at 13:28:13 -0800, Aaron Barany wrote:
Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-7
Severity: important
After a fresh install of cups, if I attempt to add a printer from
http://localhost:631; I get a forbidden error. This occurs on the first page
Hello Jonathan,
You wrote:
so presumably I ought to add myself to group lpadmin. But in any
event, the inability to get back to step 2 (the dialog box allowing
me to choose a username and password) is puzzling.
If you repeated your first two steps but in step 3 gave an incorrect
Brian Potkin wrote:
Now you try again. The first stage is not repeated because PAM is to be
trusted and would get upset if CUPS kept querying its decisions. Which
is why you do not get the dialogue box back. CUPS already knows your
status regarding group membership so just keeps pointing to
On Wed 21 Mar 2012 at 13:52:55 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Brian Potkin wrote:
Now you try again. The first stage is not repeated because PAM is to be
trusted and would get upset if CUPS kept querying its decisions. Which
is why you do not get the dialogue box back. CUPS already knows
tags 616718 + upstream
quit
Brian Potkin wrote:
The 'Forbidden' message came as a result of the design of CUPS. In that
sense it is not a bug, unless the implementation is lacking. The easy
fix, of course, is lpadmin membership.
Design bugs are still bugs. :)
Thanks for investigating.
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On Wed 21 Mar 2012 at 15:04:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Brian Potkin wrote:
The 'Forbidden' message came as a result of the design of CUPS. In that
sense it is not a bug, unless the implementation is lacking. The easy
fix, of course, is lpadmin membership.
Design bugs are still
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
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
Brian Potkin wrote:
I think we are agreed though that it is
upstream which would have to deal with it.
No, I disagree with that. It is affected users or kind hackers
working on their behalf that would have to deal with it, by writing a
patch and reporting this
Hi,
Aaron Barany wrote:
After a fresh install of cups, if I attempt to add a printer from
http://localhost:631; I get a forbidden error. This occurs on the first page
before I have a chance to add any information.
I tried something similar with cups 1.4.6-3. Here's what I did:
1. Visit
Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-7
Severity: important
After a fresh install of cups, if I attempt to add a printer from
http://localhost:631; I get a forbidden error. This occurs on the first page
before I have a chance to add any information.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
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