"PDF Printer" does no not show up in "existing printers" (Dapper)

I can confirm this.
cupsys 1.1.99.rc3-0ubuntu2
cups-pdf 2.0.3-1
gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu6

Bug confirmed.

cupsys 1.1.99.rc3-Oubuntu4
cups-pdf 2.0.3-1
gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu6

Bug confirmed too.

cupsys 1.1.99.rc3-Oubuntu4
cups-pdf 2.0.3-1
gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu6

After update, it's still bug with :

cupsys 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
cups-pdf 2.0.3-1
gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu6

cups 1.2 don't support option "RunAsOption" anymore but cups-pdf needs root privileges.

sudo chmod +s /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

Now it should be visible in web-interface and will work.

I does.
If this is added to the README.Debian this bug can be closed imo.

Maybe it can be added to "debian/postinst".
No one wants to read big manuals just to add a simple backend. The bad thing is the security problem.

Sebastian Dröge .... what do you think about it?

No need to bump importance...

Why does it need to run with root priviledges? Anyone knows?

Because it wants to put the resulting PDF files in the home directory!
It looks totaly wrong to me, but that's the way it works right now.

May be the shortest way to manage this problem is to extract the "file saving" part from the whole process to a "save file helper", then make only this being setuid root and well secured by going setuid to the final user as soon as it starts. Just my 2¢...

Fixed in Debian as of 2.4.1-2
Upload pending.
Should be available for synchronisation to Ubuntu in a few hours.

Uploaded to Debian as of Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:00:38 -0700 and ready for synchronisation to Ubuntu.

Accepted:
 OK: cups-pdf_2.4.1-2.diff.gz
 OK: cups-pdf_2.4.1-2.dsc
     -> Component: universe Section: graphics

Origin: Debian/unstable
Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:48:29 +0100
Source: cups-pdf
Binary: cups-pdf
Architecture: source
Version: 2.4.1-2
Distribution: edgy
Urgency: low

It doesn't work here. Purged the package, reinstalled the 2.4.1-2 - version and it doesn't show up in the detected printers ...

wannes@duvel:~ $ dpkg -l cups-pdf
ii cups-pdf 2.4.1-2 PDF printer for CUPS
wannes@duvel:~ $ ll /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
-rws--S--- 1 root root 25052 2006-09-28 14:26 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

Hi,

same here, doesn't work.

File permissions must be to get it to work:
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 25052 2006-09-28 14:26 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

Best regards,
Whoopie

Reopening.

Wrong permissions in 2.4.1-2. Fixed in 2.4.1-3. Needs a sync.

Does 2.4.2-1 finally fix this issue for everyone?

I removed the printer. Updated to 2.4.2-1. It showed up under the detected printers, installs fine and printing a test page also works.

Hooray! :-)

Changed status to confirmed to reflect fix request for dapper. This has been fixed in edgy, but not dapper.

Right, this shuld be released as an update to Dapper as well.

Superseded by Malone bug 87595, which requests release for Dapper, Edgy and Feisty, with a slightly newer version that further tightens the back-end permissions.