[cups.general] Kerberos printing to SMB printers

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Mon Dec 17 06:00:20 PST 2007


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, John Hodrien wrote:

> Now on a machine where the cups server is on the same machine as the client,
> things look healthier as long as I ignore kerberos to cups.  The setuid then
> makes sense, and the username comes through right.  I'm still not getting a
> printout, despite it working if I do a manual smbspool, but that's nearly
> right.

Okay, so that's me being caught out by a default 755 backend resulting in it
running as lp, which doesn't have access to the credentials.  0700 on
/usr/bin/smbspool gives me a locally correct behaviour.

jh

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