Bug 111771 - SMB password visible when printing
Summary: SMB password visible when printing
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 101052
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: samba
Version: 1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jay Fenlason
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-09 21:57 UTC by Jean Francois Martinez
Modified: 2014-08-31 23:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:00:21 UTC
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Description Jean Francois Martinez 2003-12-09 21:57:24 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If you configure for printing through an smb server, then start a
print job and do a ps you will see your SMB password displayed, for
everyone to see, as an argument to smbclient.

By using the -A option it is possible to put the workgroup, user and
password in a, read-protected of course, file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure for SMB printing
2. Print
3. Do a ps immdiately after
    

Actual Results:  Password is visible

Expected Results:  Password not visible

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-12-09 23:18:08 UTC 
Nothing we can do about it from redhat-config-printer's side of it. 
CUPS needs a URI, that's all the control we have.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2004-06-18 21:54:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101052 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:00:21 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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