"Permission denied" when running provision (with possible fix)

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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Hi Horacio,

On 02/03/2012 04:10 AM, Horacio G. de Oro wrote:
> I've compiled Samba 4 (from git) and installed it to an non-default
> location successfully, all this with a non-root user... but, when I
> try to execute the provision script, I get:
>
> ./source4/setup/provision --realm=samba4-git.hgdeoro.com.ar
> --domain=HGDEORODEV --adminpass=randompass --server-role='domain
> controller'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./source4/setup/provision", line 228, in <module>
> file =
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix=os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(lp.get("private
> dir"))))
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 444, in NamedTemporaryFile
> (fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 228, in _mkstemp_inner
> fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0600)
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/samba4-3bea5a147b3fYaLt'
>
> The install location is "/opt/samba4-3bea5a147b/" (I think the extra
> "3fYaLt" is a random string added to create the temporary file) and I
> think the problem is that the directory name is passed to
> NamedTemporaryFile() with "prefix". I'm the owner of
> "/opt/samba4-3bea5a147b/" but I've no permission on /opt. Using "dir"
> instead of "prefix" makes the script work. The attached patch 0001
> changes that.
>
> I've found that the same is used on
> source4/scripting/python/samba/netcmd/domain.py, so the 0002 patch
> removes "prefix" an put "dir" in that file, but this is totally
> untested and don't know if the changes of the two patches breaks
> anythiny... I don't know if 0002 is really needed...
Thanks! 'dir' is indeed the right thing to use here, not 'prefix'. I've
applied your patch and pushed to autobuild.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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