CVS update: samba/source/printing

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jul 23 09:43:48 EST 2002


On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:14:26AM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.

The file is one that was historicly root owned, and also
opened as root by smbd, and it's just not a security
hole to have smbd doing this..... We need to open it read/write
anyway, and we don't want arbitrary users writing to it, so
what user to you recommend we use.... :-).

Jeremy.




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