Receiving 'cups-insecure-filter' in RHEL
Issue
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In
system-config-printer
, each printer has an exclamation mark on it. The error message isPrinter 'printer': 'cups-insecure-filter'
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When a printer is configured to use backend, below error messages appear in the cups log file:
E [27/Nov/2013:13:14:50 -0500] Unable to execute /usr/lib/cups/backend/email: insecure file permissions (0100777) E [27/Nov/2013:13:14:50 -0500] [Job 86] Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute the backend.
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Jobs aren't printing and see the following errors in the systemd journal:
Sep 30 10:57:39 cupsd[359439]: lp19: Directory "/usr/lib/cups/filter" has insecure permissions (040775/uid=0/gid=0). Sep 30 10:57:39 cupsd[359439]: Unable to start filter "texttotext" - Success. Sep 30 10:57:39 cupsd[359439]: Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute a filter.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7, 8
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
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