reassign 502624 cups thanks On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Volker Behr <b...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 22:06 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q? Martin-=C3=89ric?= Racine > wrote: >> > Otherwise one can't print a test page when 'anonymous' is disabled in >> > cups-pdf configuraiton file. Moreover, no errors are reported either >> > in web interface or log files in this case. >> >> > Looking at the completed jobs I conclude that Etch version used real >> > users to print test pages. So, this sudden change after upgrade to Lenny >> > confused me while I was trying to locate the printed test page in ~/PDF >> > folder. >> >> This report seems to confuse too many issues. Let's divide those into >> smaller blocks: >> >> 1. what user should be used to generate the test page? (a CUPS issue) > > ...and that's already the end of the story. Since CUPS-PDF has no means > to determine whether a specific page is a CUPS test page (no, CUPS-PDF > will never do an in-detail analysis of the contents of the PostScript > passed to it) the test page will always be printed as the user CUPS > chooses for printing it. > >> 2. where should the test page file be saved to? (a CUPS-PDF issue) > > This is solely determined by the user chosen at 1. (i.e. by CUPS). > >> 3. whether CUPS-PDF should be dependent upon the AnonUser being >> enabled to produce a test page? >> a) if yes, should it print an error message to alert the administrator >> that, when AnonUser is disabled, it cannot produce the test page? >> b) if not, which system user should be used to produce the test page? >> (all those are CUPS-PDF issues) > > Once again: since I do not have any chance to tell a test page apart > from a real print job, the statements made above fully apply. In case of > denied anonymous accesses already now CUPS-PDF prints an "anonymous > access denied" as INFO-message to its log file. > > Regards, > Volker
As confirmed by the upstream author of CUPS-PDF, what system user is called to make test printouts via the CUPS Web interface is not dependent upon CUPS-PDF at all, since it's a generic feature of CUPS, so I'm reassigning this bug to CUPS. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org