[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#459243: Bug#459243: Bug#459243: samba: cupsaddsmb doesn't work as non-root

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:57:15AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > > I used the lpadmin group because it's created on postinst by cupsys
> > > (and cupsys-client) and thus it sounds the best group to me.

> > We can discuss giving lpadmin access to this directory and share by default,
> > but it's not yet clear to me that this is a correct default.

> Check for "write list = @lpadmin" in [print$] and propose (through
> debconf) changing the permission of /var/lib/samba/printers
> accordingly?

If we agree that lpadmin is an appropriate default, we should set that
default in smb.conf and in the directory permissions using
dpkg-statoverride.  If we don't think it's an appropriate default, I don't
think we should do anything with this other than documenting it.

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