Re: get_printer_list_db: Failed to open printer_list.tdb

On 18.04.2026 09:37, Michael Tokarev wrote:
..
> This is rpcd_spoolss, running as a user (uid=1064), doing things as
> user which aren't supposed to be run as user.
> 
> It looks like the whole thing here is quite broken.  It does many
> strange things - like constantly poking /root/.krb5/config &
> /etc/hx509.conf, constantly creating and destroying epool fd,
> and some more.
> 
> But the most important is that it does the creation of a global
> printer_list.db as user, not as root.
> 
> For now, in order to keep our systems a bit saner, I replaced
> contents of get_printer_list_db() with "return NULL" - since
> this file is never created anyway, and it has always been that
> way, it looks like.  I wonder if I can do the same for debian,
> to avoid having two builds (one local one debian), - and if yes,
> maybe I can remove whole lot of other code which run this
> function.

..or maybe just revert

commit 9080cd30d517cb50954e440bb4475c2eeb678906
Author: Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jun 22 18:56:26 2022 +0200

     s3:printing: Do not clear the printer-list.tdb

which seems to help too (Cc'ing asn@).

Thanks,

/mjt

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