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Merged into ubuntu/+source/samba:ubuntu/bionic-devel at revision a9084b119e3e4f16772e0f3eee44dbacaaf7c42a

Sergio Durigan Junior (community): Approve on 2021-11-11

Canonical Server: Pending requested 2021-11-10

Branch information

Name:: lp1942195-bionic

Repository:: lp:~paride/ubuntu/+source/samba

Recent commits

a9084b1... by Paride Legovini on 2021-11-10

Update changelog for 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.24 release

0d25f4b... by Paride Legovini on 2021-09-23

samba.postinst: do not populate sambashare from the Ubuntu admin group

This reverts commit fe5cef5014db5b5d6cf55e036583f8f84962e9b2.

The admin group has been phased out in Ubuntu 12.04 [1]:

  Up until Ubuntu 11.10, administrator access using the sudo tool was
  granted via the "admin" Unix group. In Ubuntu 12.04, administrator
  access will be granted via the "sudo" group.

We could add users in the sudo group to sambashare, however I don't
think that's really a good idea:

1. The sudo group isn't likely to go away like admin did, but it's still
   an arbitrary group, and sudo does have alternatives (polkit, doas), so
   it's not really *guaranteed* to stay forever.
2. There's nothing that removes users from sambashare when they're
   removed from the admin/sudo group.
3. Users in the sudo group can add themselves to the sambashare group.
4. This has been broken for almost 10 years, with the problem being noticed
   only when the mechanism did something unexpected.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#PrecisePangolin.2FReleaseNotes.2FCommonInfrastructure.Common_Infrastructure

LP: #1942195

285f8d8... by Marc Deslauriers on 2021-04-14