Re: usb printer vs cups

2014-09-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
On 12/09/2014 23:12, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: On 12.09.2014 20:53, Andriy Gapon wrote: From my experience I think that cupsd executes backend tools with all uids and gids set to cups and no supplementary groups. In the case of USB printers the backends need to access /dev/usbctl and

usb printer vs cups

2014-09-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
From my experience I think that cupsd executes backend tools with all uids and gids set to cups and no supplementary groups. In the case of USB printers the backends need to access /dev/usbctl and /dev/usb/foobar that corresponds to a printer. That means that the access to those devices must be

Re: usb printer vs cups

2014-09-12 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
On 12.09.2014 20:53, Andriy Gapon wrote: From my experience I think that cupsd executes backend tools with all uids and gids set to cups and no supplementary groups. In the case of USB printers the backends need to access /dev/usbctl and /dev/usb/foobar that corresponds to a printer. That