Samba 2.2 alpha3 released

[William R. Knox]

Whoever runs the binary has an EUID of root, but their UID is still that
of the original user. This is checked by LPRng, which will only allow the
-U flag to be used if the UID is root or listed in the allow_user_setting
in the config file. The setuid is so that LPRng can bind to ports in the
range 721-731, which Berkeley based LPD daemons sometimes require. Just
try the allow_user_setting in the lpd.conf and send a HUP to the LPD
daemon - I bet your problems will be solved.

			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Fouquet, Errol wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:51:13 -0700
> From: "Fouquet, Errol" <Errol.Fouquet at mms.gov>
> To: 'William R. Knox' <wknox at mitre.org>
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: RE: Samba 2.2 alpha3 released
>
> Bill,
> The problem is not related to LPRng.
> I agree that the "-U" flag is only available to root. However my lpr binary
> is "setuid root". This means that whomever runs the binary, does in fact run
> as the root user. It worked before, I would guess, because 2.0.x versions of
> Samba allowed the execution of setuid programs. It appears to me that 2.2a2
> does not.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William R. Knox [mailto:wknox at mitre.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:08 AM
> To: Fouquet, Errol
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: RE: Samba 2.2 alpha3 released
>
>
> Pardon the somewhat off-topic reply. LPRng will not allow a non-root user
> to use the -U flag by default. I couldn't tell you why it worked before.
> However, you can edit your lpd.conf file and add the line
> "allow_user_setting=name_of_smb_user" to allow the user as which the samba
> processes run (in our case nobody) to use this flag. This works like a
> charm for us here. Good luck!
>
> 			Bill Knox
> 			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> 			The MITRE Corporation
>
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