Re: Updating to cups-2.14.15 breaks cupsd

On 12/3/25 23:23, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via 
blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> On 12/3/25 10:20 PM, "Richard" ([email protected] via 
> blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
>> I don't know what to think of this one, but it is also affecting ubuntu
>> recently with the same config file error:
>>
>> root@funkyvac:/etc/cups# diff /root/tmp/cupsd.conf.old cupsd.conf
>> 136,139d135
>> < JobPrivateAccess default
>> < JobPrivateValues default
>> < SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
>> < SubscriptionPrivateValues default
>>
>> Running "/usr/sbin/cupsd -t" gives an error at line 136 to the effect 
>> that
>> JobPrivateAccess is invalid
>> Get rid of the top lines fixes it.  I may have copied that file from 
>> my host
>> operating system; I can't remember.
>>
>> I believe my host ubuntu 25.10 got an update a day or two ago, 
>> probably to fix
>> the same security issue.
>>
> Hi Richard,
>
> That is unfortunately going to be a problem in the future unless it's 
> in a Policy, but for now there is a workaround you can try...
>
> Try applying this patch and see if that works!
>
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/5661ec7e50991694098b0f0dc34805bf0a188e2e.patch 
>
>
> You'll probably want to try adjusting your configuration though. That 
> being said, a better workaround is coming upstream, but this will get 
> you going for now.
>
> - Doug
>
I DID copy that /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file from my Ubuntu host to my BLFS 
while getting the printer to work.  The one in the source 
cups-2.4.15/conf/cupsd.conf  works on BLFS without the problem. It also 
works on my Ubuntu 25.10 host without the problem. Perhaps all Canonical 
needs to do is update to a current config file to fix their problem.  
The newer copy from the source has those same 'bad' line items but under 
a different header:

# Set the default printer/job policies...
<Policy default>
   # Job/subscription privacy...
   JobPrivateAccess default
   JobPrivateValues default
   SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
   SubscriptionPrivateValues default


Instead of just </Policy>

I haven't tried your patches.  Perhaps not really needed after all?

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