On 11/17/12 07:24, Ryan Stone wrote:
/etc/group is supposed to be world-reable, right? Tools like groups or pw
groupshow certainly seem to think so:
[rstone@rstone-server ~]groups
1001 920
[rstone@rstone-server ~]ls -l /etc/group
-rw--- 1 root 0 482 Nov 14 21:02 /etc/group
On 2012-11-19, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
First, pw should not fail if other instance is running, it should wait
instead (think of parallel batch scripts adding some users/groups).
Second, current code has a race:
lockfd = open(group_file, O_RDONLY, 0);
if (lockfd 0 || fcntl(lockfd, F_SETFD, 1)
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:45:43PM +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
On 2012-11-19, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
First, pw should not fail if other instance is running, it should wait
instead (think of parallel batch scripts adding some users/groups).
Second, current code has a race:
lockfd =
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:20:21AM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
My original complaint that /etc/group gets permissions of 0600 is a result
of a bug in libutil, which bapt@ ported pw to use in r242349. The new
group manipulation API using mktemp to create a temporary file, writes the
new group
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:28:43PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:20:21AM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
My original complaint that /etc/group gets permissions of 0600 is a result
of a bug in libutil, which bapt@ ported pw to use in r242349. The new
group manipulation API
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:37:45PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:28:43PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:20:21AM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
My original complaint that /etc/group gets permissions of 0600 is a result
of a bug in libutil,
/etc/group is supposed to be world-reable, right? Tools like groups or pw
groupshow certainly seem to think so:
[rstone@rstone-server ~]groups
1001 920
[rstone@rstone-server ~]ls -l /etc/group
-rw--- 1 root 0 482 Nov 14 21:02 /etc/group
[rstone@rstone-server ~]sudo chmod a+r /etc/group
Wow. So apparently things are even more broken than I though. Let's play,
What group am I in?
root@group-testing:/usr/home/rstone # cd /tmp
root@group-testing:/tmp # pw groupadd testing
root@group-testing:/tmp # mkdir testdir
root@group-testing:/tmp # chown root:testing testdir/
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:20:21AM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
Wow. So apparently things are even more broken than I though. Let's play,
What group am I in?
root@group-testing:/usr/home/rstone # cd /tmp
root@group-testing:/tmp # pw groupadd testing
root@group-testing:/tmp # mkdir testdir
