Package: mgetty-fax
Version: 1.1.33-1
Severity: normal
The man pages says:
-u <user name>
Do not use the current user ID for authentication purposes but the
user name specified. Since this can lead to easy breach of security,
only "trusted" users may use this flag. Currently, those users are
"root", "lp" and "daemon" (hardwired into the code). Note: the status
mail will still go to the user running faxspool(1) unless changed with
"-f".
However, in the code, only root (ROOT_UID) is allowed to specify the -u
option.
When using faxspool as a backend through a print service (lprng in this
case), this breaks things for ordinary users, since the job will always be
owned by daemon, and the user cannot remove it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (100, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages mgetty-fax depends on:
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii mgetty 1.1.33-1 Smart Modem getty replacement
-- debconf information:
* mgetty-fax/new_security_scheme:
* mgetty-fax/start_faxrunqd: false
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