Package: mandos
Version: 1.6.9
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I've been making a mandos server setup. The service and the servers
it has to unlock are running on different networks and, due to this,
zeroconf is not useful for me. As I was not using zeroconf, avahi
service was not running while running all my tests.
Thing is that, while starting up mandos server with the init script,
I obtained the following error:
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ERROR: Introspect error on org.freedesktop.Avahi:/: \
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.FileInvalid: \
Cannot do system-bus activation with no user
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I asked myself why was mandos trying to communicate with Avahi if
I have configured zeroconf to be false? I then tried to manually
run the service like this:
mandos --no-zeroconf
This time the service started up correctly.
Taking a look around I ended up on the options parsing section of
/usr/sbin/mandos. Seems like zeroconf option is missing there,
therefore, not matter True or False, service will be always trying
to use zeroconf, as the default value is True.
--- mandos.orig 2017-02-20 15:11:40.228977179 +0100
+++ mandos 2017-02-20 15:12:18.381015090 +0100
@@ -2370,7 +2370,7 @@
# Convert the SafeConfigParser object to a dict
server_settings = server_config.defaults()
# Use the appropriate methods on the non-string config options
- for option in ("debug", "use_dbus", "use_ipv6", "foreground"):
+ for option in ("debug", "use_dbus", "use_ipv6", "foreground", "zeroconf"):
server_settings[option] = server_config.getboolean("DEFAULT",
option)
if server_settings["port"]:
With this little modification, things started to work as expected.
I've also looked to the sid package as well, and seems to be having
the same issue.
Many thanks in advance for taking care of this.
Best.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
