[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2211: "Export Printers to Samba" doesn'twork for newly added printers

[Christoph Peus]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> [STR Closed w/o Resolution]
> 
> It is simply not possible to do sudo from the web interfaces - there is no
> way for the authentication information to be passed in.

It's not necessary to pass any authentication information if 
/etc/sudoers is configured for this purpose. Something like this in 
sudoers would do the job (if the command is executed with the identity 
of user 'cp'):

cp     printspooler = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/smbcontrol smbd reload-config

I think it would be very easy to implement executing 'sudo smbcontrol 
smbd reload-config' prior to the cupsaddsmb command. It would be up to 
the administrator wether he wants to give his trusted users the 
permission to execute this command successfully or not.

> Similarly, we don't want cupsd (which runs as root) doing this since not
> all administrators want to share their printers via Samba and not all
> systems even want to run Samba.

Have you perhaps misunderstood me? I suggest to make this command part 
of the "Export Printers to Samba" feature, and you can be sure that 
*every* administrator, who clicks that button wants to share the printer 
via Samba.


Would you *please* reconsider implemeting this feature?  :)
Thanks!

Regards
Christoph