On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008, Alain Spineux wrote:
>
>  > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>  > > On Fri, May 02, 2008, Alain Spineux wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  > [...]
>  > >
>  > > > # /kolab/sbin/named -u kolab-r -g
>  > >  > [...]
>  > >
>  > > > controls {
>  > >  >     unix "/kolab/var/bind/named.ctl"
>  > >  >          perm 0600 owner 19415 group 19415
>  > >  >          keys { "rndc-key"; };
>  > >  >     #inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
>  > >  >          #allow { 127.0.0.1;  }
>  > >  >          #keys  { "rndc-key"; };
>  > >  > };
>  > >  > [...]
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Any idea what's wrong ?
>  > >
>  > >  Is UID 19415 really the "kolab-r" user?
>  >
>  > Yes :-)
>  >
>  > I looked further and found this is a "capability" problem, I removed
>  > the two call to  linux_setcaps in bind-9.4.2/bin/named/unix/os.c
>  > and all (the "bind" and the "chown") the problems diapered.
>  >
>  > I thing this is a bind bug, not openpkg related !
>  > They should setup the correct capabilities for linux platform.
>  >
>  > Any comments ?
>
>  I would say: please file a bug report with the BIND developer team. If

I will try.

>  you in parallel could fine out what the _correct_ way is to initialize
>  the Linux capability stuff, I'm also happy to include a patch into the
>  "bind" package to fix this until a fixed new BIND version is released.
>  But just removing the two calls I think might be too extreme. Can the
>  _real_ problem be fixed: the reason why it actually breaks?

I looked at it but didn't find all the "capabilities" to enable !

>
>  I've not tested the following, but as a wild guess perhaps the
>  following solves the problem:

I found this too, this solve the chown(), but not the bind() !
For the bind I simply did a
# chmod g+w  /kolab/var/bind

Then only two small thing tho change until the BIND developer team react :-)

Regards.

>
>  Index: bin/named/unix/os.c
>  --- bin/named/unix/os.c.orig    2006-02-04 00:51:38 +0100
>  +++ bin/named/unix/os.c 2008-05-02 17:25:33 +0200
>  @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@
>         caps |= (1 << CAP_SETGID);
>
>         /*
>  +        * Since we call chown, we need this.
>  +        */
>  +       caps |= (1 << CAP_CHOWN);
>  +
>  +       /*
>          * Without this, we run into problems reading a configuration file
>          * owned by a non-root user and non-world-readable on startup.
>          */
>
>
>
>                                        Ralf S. Engelschall
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