[PATCH] Bug#1780 smbspool can't use kerberos authentication

Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra Rodrigo.Fernandez-Vizarra at Sun.COM
Fri Apr 22 08:54:44 GMT 2005


Hi Jeremy,

I'm sorry I wasn't aware of that policy. Please find the new version of 
the patches attached.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:43:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Attached you will find two patches.
>>
>>The first one samba3-smbspool-krb.patch allows the smbspool cups backend 
>>to use the kerberos credentials of the user who issued the print job.
>>
>>The second one does the same but also works in those systems, as SuSE 
>>SLES 9.0 where root processes are not allowed to read user kerberos 
>>ticket cache (don't know if this is a bug or a feature).
>>
>>Of course, for this patch to work you have to have a kerberos ticket 
>>available ( kinit, or pam_krb5 configured).
>>
>>It first try to use the username:password (if any ) encoded in the 
>>DEVICE_URL, if it fails it tries to use kerberos, if that fails tries an 
>>anonymous authentication.
>>
>>Any feedback will be welcomed.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for these patches but I can't apply them as you've
>added a (C) Sun Microsystems to them.
>
>The Samba Team has a policy (based on past experiences) that
>we don't accept any patches with corporate copyright, only
>those with individual copyright. This prevents any corporate
>control over the codebase.
>
>If you're willing to resubmit these patches with your own
>personal copyright notice on them rather than Sun then I'll
>reconsider them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Jeremy.
>  
>

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