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- <appendix id="appendixb-0">
- <title>Security Note on Configuring SMB Printers</title>
- <highlights>
- <para>This appendix provides a security note related to the configuration
- of printers on Windows network shares.</para>
- </highlights>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Samba</primary>
- <see>SMB</see>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Windows network shares</primary>
- <see>SMB</see>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SMB</primary>
- <secondary>configuring printers</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>Windows network shares are also referred to as Samba or <firstterm>SMB</firstterm>
- shares. When you configure a printer on an SMB share, you must enter a username
- and password for the print queue. </para>
- <para>The username and password for the print queue is stored as unencrypted
- text in the file <filename>/etc/cups/printers.conf</filename>.
- This file has read-only permissions for users with root privileges, so any
- user with root privileges can read the username and password for the print
- queue. </para>
- <para>To reduce the impact of possible security violations, ensure that the
- username and password required to access the print queue is used only for
- the print queue. This ensures that any possible security violation is restricted
- to unauthorized use of the print queue.</para>
- </appendix>
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