[cups.general] cups-1.1.22rc1 - Pausing via samba unauthorized depending on order of SystemGroup conf

daniel.jarboe at custserv.com daniel.jarboe at custserv.com
Thu Oct 14 12:51:27 PDT 2004


> Only the first group in the SystemGroup is able to read the root
> certificate, which is where SAMBA tries to get its authentication
> information from.
> 
> We may add support for POSIX ACLs in CUPS 1.2 (that would allow the
> root certificate file to belong to multiple groups), however at
> present you need to stick with a single group for Windows users
> and place it first in the list.
> 
> If you are interested in hacking POSIX ACL support into CUPS,
> check out scheduler/cert.c - the AddCert() function sets the
> group ownership, and you could change this code to use the
> acl_set_fd(), acl_from_text(), and acl_free() functions...
> 
> (keep in mind you need to use a filesystem that supports POSIX
> ACLs...)

Thank you Mike!  I'll take a look at that!

~ Daniel





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