On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Ivarsson, Magnus wrote:
Hi, I am new to distcc but I must say that it looks really promising.
Eager to get started I tried to start the distccd on a few machines
running windows xp and windows 7 and cygwin.
On my own laptop it went well, but on the other machines (one xp and
one win7) the result was this:
bash-3.2# distccd --daemon --allow 1.2.3.4/24
distccd[4596] (dcc_preferred_user) Warning: no such user as "distcc"
distccd[4596] (dcc_discard_root) ERROR: setgid(65534) failed: Invalid argument
distccd[4596] (dcc_exit) exit: code 112; self: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys;
children: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys
Trying to set the user manually gets me a tiny step forward:
bash-3.2# distccd --daemon --allow 1.2.3.4/24 --user apa
distccd[4996] (dcc_discard_root) CRITICAL! still have root privileges after
trying to discard them!
distccd[4996] (dcc_exit) exit: code 112; self: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys;
children: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys
The version information:
bash-3.2# distccd --version
distccd 2.18.3 i686-pc-cygwin (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
built Apr 25 2005 11:10:45
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin Pool.
Includes miniLZO (C) 1996-2002 by Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer.
I have tried to search for solutions on the web but to no avail
- any clues would be greatly appreciated!
I think a long-term solution for Cygwin would be to add something like
the example in
http://www.cygwin.com/1.5/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid
in the dcc_discard_root function in src/setuid.c (near line 126).
If you just want a hack (which almost surely opens a security hole), you
can short-circuit the conditional on line 131. (dcc_discard_root won't
actually be discarding root, but you can just pretend it didn't fail.)
--
Best,
Ben
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