CVS update: samba/source/printing

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at xsec.it
Tue Jul 23 09:14:26 EST 2002


What I wanto to say is: do this file contain sensitive information? Do
it need to be operated as root at all? We can simply move out the file
if there are no resons for it to be used as root.
Simo.

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 23:27, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > Is it necessary to be root?
> > Wouldn't it better to use a special unprivileged user like nobosy or
> > such?
> 
> Yes root is needed - the printing tdb files lie in a root writeable
> only directory.
> 
> Jeremy.
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