Purpose of smbrun, let's document it
Andrew Tridgell
tridge at samba.org
Fri Feb 12 00:06:59 GMT 1999
> Last time I checked, the smbrun man page gave only a very sketchy
> explaination of its purpose. It suggests that "some systems" require it.
smbrun is only used on systems that don't have execl(). Most unix-like
systems do have execl().
It is used to securely launch external programs, which mostly means
lpr, lpq and programs specified in preexec options.
> What I want to know is if it is OK to disable the use of smbrun.
if your OS has execl() then you can remove it. Does anyone want to
submit a patch to make smbrun not compile/install on systems with
execl() ?
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