Receiving 'cups-insecure-filter' in RHEL

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Issue

  • In system-config-printer, each printer has an exclamation mark on it. The error message is

    Printer 'printer': 'cups-insecure-filter'

  • 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 sheduler could not execute the backend.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

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