Hi Martin! Please reply to bug #502555 [1] only, this discussion belongs there.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:06:28 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > 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. I clearly remembered that I wrote about AnonUser and AnonDirName in a bug report: while replying to you I looked for my post in bug #501719 only [2], while I should have looked at the CUPS-PDF bugs and I would have found it, bug #502555 [1]. I think you wanted to reply to the latter ;-) > On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:58:59 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. These comments stand, feel free to downgrade the severity to wishlist. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/502555 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/501719
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