Opened 22 years ago

Closed 22 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

#1203 closed defect (fixed)

Cups installation requires a 'lp' user

Reported by: Randy McMurchy Owned by: Randy McMurchy
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: high Keywords:
Cc:

Description

The Cups instructions needs to provide commands to create a 'lp' user, as the lppasswd program is set to lp:sys ownership by default. If the 'lp' user doesn't exist, word has it that 'nobody' is then used, and if 'nobody' doesn't exist, then the installation ultimately fails.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 22 years ago

Priority: highest → high
Severity: critical → major

P1 is for security bugs

comment:2 by Randy McMurchy, 22 years ago

Milestone: future → 6.0

comment:3 by Randy McMurchy, 22 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to Randy McMurchy

comment:4 by Randy McMurchy, 22 years ago

Status: new → assigned

comment:5 by Randy McMurchy, 22 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Added instructions to create an 'lp' user

comment:6 by (none), 18 years ago

Milestone: 6.0

Milestone 6.0 deleted

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