[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#501719: Bug#501719: cups-pdf: doesn't play well with NetWare shares

[Luca Capello]

found 501719 2.4.8-3
thanks

Hi Martin!

Thank you for the explanation about the differences between the AnonUser
and AnonDirName variables: however, this bug has nothing to do with
those variables and thus I reopened it.

Now, some comments...

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:58:59 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
>> [nothing about AnonUser or AnonDirName]
>
> The explanation is simple:
>
> AnonUser describes the UNIX user ID under which anonymous printing
> (e.g. NCP or Samba) will run.
>
> AnonDirName describes the output directory for that user. In many
> cases, that user will be be a non-human user without a home directory,
> which is why we set this variable to whichever output directory suits
> a particular purpose.
>
> We simply cannot assume anything about where the anonymous user is
> gonna print. This is not a bug. This is a feature to give flexibility
> to the administrator. :-)

Since there's an AnonUser variable, not only an AnonDirName one, I'd
expect that when the AnonUser is no more anonymous (because you assign a
real user), then the AnonDirName will act accordingly, thus becoming the
real user's one.

While I agree that having two separated variables give more flexibility,
this is per se a bug, since it's not documented.  But this would be
another bug and, again, it has nothing to do with the subject.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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