Public bug reported:
As installed out of the box on Ubuntu, the primary group of smsd is
smsd. It is also member of group dialout. This makes sense because
smsd needs access to modem devices, which normally are crw-rw---- for
root:dialout.
As configured in /etc/default/smstools, smsd runs with effective group
dialout. Though this makes sense, it is not strictly necessary, given
that smsd is a member of group dialout.
Smsd's spool directories (/var/spool/sms/*) are rwxrwsr-t for smsd:smsd.
Thus to give a user permission to send SMS it suffices to add them to
group smsd. This gives them write access to /var/spool/sms/outgoing.
Additionally, due to the setgid when they put a file there, it will be
owned user:smsd.
So far, so good. Smsd has ownership of the outgoing directory, so can
read and r(re)move the file. However, it gives the error "Cannot handle
/var/spool/sms/outgoing/somefile.sms: Access denied. Check the file and
directory permissions."
As is apparent from the files in the sent and failed spools (when smsd
is run with effective group smsd instead of dialout), what smsd is
trying to do is to *take ownership* of the file. This however it cannot
do: it is not a privileged user and its effective user nor group match
the files owner or group.
There are two solutions: chown the /var/spool/sms directories to
smsd:dialout (while keeping effective group dialout), or set smsd's
effective group in /etc/default/smstools to smsd (while keeping
/var/spool/sms owned smsd:smsd).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: smstools 3.1.15-1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-46.49~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-46-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 24 13:32:23 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-04 (507 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: smstools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-25 (364 days ago)
** Affects: smstools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Attachment removed: "JournalErrors.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smstools/+bug/1685802/+attachment/4867336/+files/JournalErrors.txt
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smstools/+bug/1685802/+attachment/4867335/+files/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment removed: "ProcEnviron.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smstools/+bug/1685802/+attachment/4867337/+files/ProcEnviron.txt
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ownership on /var/spool/sms directories incorrect
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