uid_wrapper: Add uwrap_setresuid().

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Sun Oct 9 08:49:50 MDT 2011


On Sunday 09 October 2011 07:37:36 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 10:00 -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 10:30 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > > Am 08.10.2011 10:01, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > > > On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 09:44 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > > >> On Saturday 08 October 2011 10:42:45 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > >>> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 12:05 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > > >>>> - Log
> > > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>>> -------- commit 4493c578b0da44ae2100cc0d4d6acc714bf39a3f
> > > >>>> Author: Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
> > > >>>> Date:   Fri Oct 7 10:30:23 2011 +0200
> > > >>>> 
> > > >>>>     uid_wrapper: Add uwrap_setresuid().
> > > >>>>     
> > > >>>>     Autobuild-User: Andreas Schneider
> > > >>>>     <asn at cryptomilk.org>
> > > >>>>     Autobuild-Date: Fri Oct  7 12:04:05 CEST 2011 on
> > > >>>>     sn-devel-104
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Andreas,
> > > >> 
> > > >> Andrew,
> > > >> 
> > > >>> It's really great to see UID wrapper being ported into the
> > > >>> source3 code, but I just wanted to mention that this seems
> > > >>> to have broken the Solaris build.
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> http://build.samba.org/build.cgi/build/2830602b39d10d5637469
> > > >>> a8039ab51ee7329f ad5
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> I'm sure the fix is pretty simple, I just wanted to bring it
> > > >>> to your attention.
> > > >> 
> > > >> there is more stuff broken than I thought, and I think I've
> > > >> fixed it now.
> > > >> 
> > > >> http://git.samba.org/?p=asn/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/
> > > >> s3-uid-wrapper
> > > >> 
> > > >> I just wanted that someone looks over it before I push it.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.  I'm OK with these patches, except for
> > > > http://git.samba.org/?p=asn/samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=17890a7e46b
> > > > 5227f4fa24c8326a4a13421d0edaa
> > > > 
> > > > The problem I have this this patch is if overriding the get/set
> > > > uid
> > > > functions requires that we include a particular header, but the
> > > > build
> > > > can continue without that header specified, we can get in a lot
> > > > of
> > > > trouble quickly.  We should ensure that we do not obtain the
> > > > system
> > > > prototypes for the replaced functions except via the header that
> > > > has the uid_wrapper replacements.
> > > > 
> > > > If we don't, we risk subtle, painful to debug issues in our test
> > > > environment (the same applies for socket_wrapper, and it is from
> > > > that
> > > > experience that I give this warning).
> > > > 
> > > > I do realise this is difficult with geteuid() being defined via
> > > > unistd.h, but this is yet another reason why all Samba code
> > > > should only include system/ headers, not system headers
> > > > directly.
> > > 
> > > I think Andreas should push this changes to make it work at all.
> > > Then we can think about a good generic strategie how to prevent such
> > > problems
> > > for all wrapper libraries.
> > > 
> > > Ok?
> > 
> > +1
> 
> Just to loop back to the list, Andreas and Metze caught me on IRC last
> night and I ack-ed a revised patch that addressed my concerns (it wasn't
> a large change in the end).

But now it doesn't work anymore :(


	-- andreas

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