Security question [#58427]

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed May 14 11:03:39 BST 2003


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On Wednesday 14 May 2003 10:35, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> I'm looking for external opinions. See
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58427

"When cupsdoprint is killed, the kprinter application is displaying a message 
that shows the user id and password it was trying to use."

If that's true, then that's a security concern. It shouldn't display the 
password. (See also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57366 btw)

I don't see a problem allowing a user to print using another user-id. If the 
user has the credentials to do so, he is apparantly allowed to do so.

Cheers,
Waldo
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