On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:14:07AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > The correct way to handle this is to have a 'winbind_priv' group, put
> > squid and any other apps (apache for mod_ntlm_winbind?) you must have
> > access the winbind pipe in it, and set that group on the directory.
> > 
> > In squid, you do *not* specify the effective group id, instead you
> > ensure the primary and supplementary groups for squid are squid
> > (primary) and winbind_priv (secondary).  At startup, squid will
> > initgroups() to get the right privileges.

> So, well, this means that this bug report should then be cloned to
> both squid and samba packages:

> -samba: use a winbind_priv (or whatever the maintainers choose to name
> it) group and change group ownership of
> /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged to it

> -squid: make the squid user member of the winbind_priv group

> And probably the same for the www-data user the Apache server runs
> with.

> Eloy, Steve, I guess it's up to you to decide whether this is worth
> it.

Mmm, I think this is probably best left to the local admin, at least for the
time being.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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