lp as guest?

[Gerald W. Carter]

>
> I am running 1.9.17 on a Digital Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0b.  I had
> originally setup the guest account as the user 'nobody' and filesharing
> worked without a hitch.  I just started sharing printers and it didn't
> work.  I change the guest user to 'lp'
> 
> The /etc/password shows (lp:*:8:12:Line Printer Subsystem:/users/lp:)
> 
> This seemed to work fine for both printing and file sharing for guests.
> My question:  Are there any security issues or other problems in using lp
> as the guest account?
> 
> TIA!

we use lp as the guest account but only for printing.  The global 
guest account is set to nobody.  We set a specific guest account for
printing.

[printers]
        print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -J%M -P%p %s; rm %s
        postscript = False
        path = /var/spool/samba
        min print space = 10000
        public = yes
        printable = yes
        browseable = yes
        comment = PC Lab Printers
        guest account = lp
        writable = no

...from log.smb
--------------------
08/28/97 12:25:39 zorkmid (131.204.12.52) connect to service apps as
user nob
ody (uid=60001,gid=60001) (pid 25154)
08/28/97 12:25:40 zorkmid (131.204.12.52) connect to service pc_lab as
user n
obody (uid=60001,gid=60001) (pid 25154)
08/28/97 12:26:46 zorkmid (131.204.12.52) connect to service pebble as
user l
p (uid=71,gid=8) (pid 25154)





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                          Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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