init scripts should never call su. They should call start-stop-daemon
instead.
** Changed in: couchdb (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Reported upstream at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-603.
(LP does not track JIRA tickets yet.)
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Chad Miller (cmiller)
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Herb,
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.
Can you please be more specific? What do you mean by doesn't work? Do you get
an error while starting it?
I've checked the init script, and it is perfectly normal to run su $USER being
already a $USER.
If you run su as $USER the su process will either a) prompt you for a
password (if one is set) or b) return su: Permission denied if the
password field is a *. Either way this blocks the startup of the process
or the machine.
Example a:
h...@ramble:~$ id
uid=1000(herb) gid=1000(herb)
Herb,
You are correct; this would be a problem if the script would run by anyone
but root.
But is it executed as non-root user? Ever?
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It is run as a non-root user. That's how we found this bug. On our
production systems we on occasion give people access to certain role
accounts, but don't want them to have root access. This includes the
ability to start and stop services associated with said role accounts.
In particular some
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