lppasswd fails due to missing file?

[michaelrsweet]

Version: 1.2-current
CUPS.org User: atn

Trying to add cups users as root, via lppasswd fails, error message is "lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied". Running the same through strace gives:
open("/l/cups-1.2.1/etc/cups/passwd.new", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0400) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
access("/l/cups-1.2.1/share/locale/C/cups_C.po", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/l/cups-1.2.1/share/locale/C/cups_C.po", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "lppasswd: Unable to open passwor"..., 58lppasswd: Unable to open password file: Permission denied
) = 58
exit_group(1) = ?
Process 30419 detached

As I checked for the missing file cups_C.po, I saw that the entire directory /l/cups-1.2.1/share/locale/C/ was missing.

Seems like a bug, I'm running cups-1.2.1 compiled from sources on an RHEL4 server. Only configuration changes while compiling was that the prefix directory is /l/cups-1.2.1. Seems to be working normally besides this lppasswd problem.

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

It's a permissions problem. Basically, it can't create the passwd.new file in /etc/cups.

As a temporary solution, do:

chown root /l/cups-1.2.1/bin/lppasswd
chmod 4755 /l/cups-1.2.1/bin/lppasswd

The program is, by default, installed setuid to "lp", but I think we're going to have to go back to setuid to "root" for this to work...

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

Fixed in Subversion repository.