net usershare dies for users with "Failed to init messaging context"

[David Mulder]

That was testing against 4.6.3. This didn't happen in 3.6.3. There's a
nautlius plugin that lets regular users create shares called
nautilus-share. Does this just not work anymore?

On 06/05/2017 11:51 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:09:12AM -0600, David Mulder via samba-technical wrote:
>>> net usershare add test_share /home/dmulder/test_share/
>> Failed to init messaging context
>>
>>
>> I've been looking at this and thinking this might be due to hardening
>> done after the badlock fixes. Any thoughts? Maybe this is a known issue?
>>
>> It only fails for regular users, not for root.
>>
>> Debug:
>> pm_process() returned Yes
>> lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes
>> messaging_dgm_lockfile_create: open failed: Permission denied
>> messaging_dgm_init: messaging_dgm_create_lockfile failed: Permission denied
>> messaging_dgm_ref: messaging_dgm_init returned Permission denied
>> messaging_dgm_init failed: Permission denied
>> messaging_dgm_ref failed: Permission denied
>> Failed to init messaging context
> That's normal for a non-root usage of the net client binary.
>
> In 4.5.x we have:
>
>         /*
>          * Failing to init the msg_ctx isn't a fatal error. Only root-level
>          * things (joining/leaving domains etc.) will be denied.
>          */
>         c->msg_ctx = messaging_init(c, samba_tevent_context_init(c));
>
> in 4.6 and above (master) we have:
>
>         status = messaging_init_client(c,
>                                        samba_tevent_context_init(c),
>                                        &c->msg_ctx);
>         if (geteuid() != 0 &&
>                         NT_STATUS_EQUAL(status, NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)) {
>                 /*
>                  * Normal to fail to initialize messaging context
>                  * if we're not root as we don't have ability to
>                  * read lock directory.
>                  */
>                 DBG_NOTICE("Unable to initialize messaging context. "
>                         "Must be root to do that.\n");
>         } else if (!NT_STATUS_IS_OK(status)) {
>                 d_fprintf(stderr, "Failed to init messaging context\n");
>                 exit(1);
>         }
>
> Is you testing in 4.5.x or 4.6.x ?
>

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