Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:38:45 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/9485: lpr uses wrong username (3.0-R) Message-ID: <19990115093845.B13768@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199901150750.XAA21893@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Konrad Heuer on Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:50:02PM -0800 References: <199901150750.XAA21893@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:50:02PM -0800, Konrad Heuer wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/9485; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> > To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: bin/9485: lpr uses wrong username (3.0-R) > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:42:08 +0100 (CET) > > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > Login on a 3.0-R system as root and stop an arbitrary printer > > > queue to make sure that you've time enough to look a the queue. > > > Print a file (lpr). The su to a normal user and print again. > > > Take a look at the queue by lpq. Both jobs are owned by root. > > > > This was intentional -- all files are printed under the login of the > > user, unless no login context is present, in which case it falls back > > to the old mechanism. See setlogin(2). The intent is to make life > > easier for large sites where many people have root access and still > > want to distinguish their print requests. > > I agree, that seems to be desirable. But what's about Samba? The smbd > process is run by root, and all print jobs accepted by smbd are now owned > by root. That's not acceptable for a lot of people I think (and for me too > :-) since I want to build a large printer server for many people). Can't you just use the -U user option on the lpr client side? Just an idea. Or am I off target? > > Regards > > // > // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ > // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ > // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / > // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ > // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- > // http://www.freebsd.org > // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > // > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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