Bug#502624: cups-pdf: "Test page" from web interface should use real user instead of 'anonymous'
reassign 502624 cups thanks On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Volker Behr 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
Bug#502624: cups-pdf: "Test page" from web interface should use real user instead of 'anonymous'
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 > Fellow CUPS maintainers and the CUPS-PDF upstream author are welcome > to comment if I forgot anything. > > Martin-Éric -- Dr. rer. nat. Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-31-85766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#502624: cups-pdf: "Test page" from web interface should use real user instead of 'anonymous'
> 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) 2. where should the test page file be saved to? (a CUPS-PDF issue) 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) Fellow CUPS maintainers and the CUPS-PDF upstream author are welcome to comment if I forgot anything. Martin-Éric
Bug#502624: cups-pdf: "Test page" from web interface should use real user instead of 'anonymous'
Package: cups-pdf Version: 2.4.8-3 Severity: normal 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. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on: ii cups 1.3.8-1lenny2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libc62.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact cups-pdf recommends no packages. Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests: pn system-config-printer-gnome | (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
