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

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jan 24 20:17:49 PST 2007


Christoph Peus wrote:
> ...
> 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.

We can't depend on sudoers being configured this way, and we'd have
to open the account that the CGIs run under ("lp" with the default
configuration on Linux), which is a HUGE security hole.

> Would you *please* reconsider implemeting this feature?  :)

Sorry, no.

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