[Pkg-samba-maint] [printers] path=/var/spool/samba - another but bad /var/tmp ?

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Thu May 19 09:53:50 BST 2022


17.05.2022 22:22, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:39 PM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> In debian, samba is shipping with smb.conf having a [printers]
>> section which points to /var/spool/samba/ directory which is
>> created with mode 1777, - the same as /tmp and /var/tmp.
[...]
> No precise idea, but we should take a look at what other distributions do,
> notably Fedora (and RHEL).

Well, not everything done by RHEL is exactly right ;))
But FWIW, RHEL ships [printers] share with path=/var/tmp, -
exactly as I'd use myself? and exactly as I wrote initially.

So I guess we can move it there just as well.  The only thing to
do is to figure out how to do that accurately.

Thanks,

/mjt



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