Bug 38058 – Members of group "printer-admins" cannot upload printer drivers

Bug 38058 - Members of group "printer-admins" cannot upload printer drivers


Summary:	Members of group "printer-admins" cannot upload printer drivers

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	UCS manual
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Services for Windows
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	UCS 4.0-x
Assigned To:	Docu maintainers
QA Contact:	Samba maintainers

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Depends on:	37864
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Reported:	2015-03-17 12:02 CET by Arvid Requate
Modified:	2024-04-17 13:16 CEST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Arvid Requate

2015-03-17 12:02:50 CET

We should point out in the manual that only the domain Administrator account can upload printer drivers to Samba4 DCs currently.

A different issue applies to Memberservers (Bug #26712) but there is a workaround for that.



+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #37864 +++

Ticket #2015010921000254 reports an access problem for members of the printer-admins" group when uploading printer drivers from a windows client. Looks like something tries to access files below /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb.d/, maybe that's triggered automatically, unspecific of the driver upload
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Comment 1 Nico Gulden

2024-04-17 13:16:42 CEST

This bug hasn't seen any update for several years. I close it.

If you still see a need for it, you can reopen the bug. Please add an argumentation about why it's important to take care of it.