Package: cacti-spine
Version: 1.1.37-1~bpo9+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Upgrading from cacti-spine_1.1.37-1~bpo9+1 to
cacti-spine_1.1.37-2~bpo9+1 caused execution of cacti-spine for non-root users
to break, even with setuid bits set for either just user or all.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Attempted to set setuid bits on /usr/sbin/spine to permit execution by
non-root users (eg, cacti). Attempted to debug by running "/usr/sbnin/spine
-H=180 -R -S -V=5" and "/usr/sbin/spine -h" as both root and cacti users.
* What was the outcome of this action?
/usr/sbin/spine would fail silently when executed by cacti user but
would run successfully when executed by root user. Example:
cacti@mon1:~# /usr/sbin/spine -H=180 -R -S -V=5
cacti@mon1:~#
cacti@mon1:~# /usr/sbin/spine -h
cacti@mon1:~#
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Expected spine to execute successfully for non-root cacti user once
setuid bit(s) were set.
Re-installing cacti-spine_1.1.37-2~bpo9+1 had no effect, Removing and re-adding
setuid bits had no effect. Once I rolled the package back to
cacti-spine_1.1.37-1~bpo9+1 and set the setuid bit for the user it started
executing successfully again for the no-root cacti user with no other changes
necessary.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cacti-spine depends on:
ii cacti 1.1.38+ds1-1~bpo9+1
ii dbconfig-no-thanks 2.0.11~bpo9+1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4
ii libmariadbclient18 10.1.37-0+deb9u1
ii libsnmp30 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u1
ii ucf 3.0036
cacti-spine recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cacti-spine suggests:
ii snmp-mibs-downloader 1.1+nmu1
-- no debconf information
