Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How to replicate old LPD filter functionality?

Morgan wrote:

> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > For an example of a simple backend (this one does the conversion
> > of any printjob to PDF and stores it somewhere) look at the "distiller"
> > script at
> > 
> >   http://printing.kde.org/downloads/
> 
> Kurt -- that's the tip I needed!  It was easy to modify ps2pdf to act
> as an interface to my legacy LPD application.  What's more, the backend
> runs as root which simplifies a lot of things, but makes me wonder
> if that's recommended 

CUPS backends always run as root. (Most other components don't).
So be careful what you allow your backends to do.....