man/chage.1.xml: Indicate that -d option with a value of 0 forces the
user to change his password. Besides, set an example on how to use -E
option. Finally, add a general note to clarify that chage only takes
charge of local users and another note to indicate that it doesn't check
inconsistencies between shadow and passwd files.
covscan issue:
Error: RESOURCE_LEAK (CWE-772): [#def39] [important]
src/useradd.c:728: alloc_fn: Storage is returned from allocation function "get_local_group".
src/useradd.c:728: var_assign: Assigning: "grp" = storage returned from "get_local_group(list)".
src/useradd.c:728: overwrite_var: Overwriting "grp" in "grp = get_local_group(list)" leaks the storage that "grp" points to.
726| * GID values, otherwise the string is looked up as is.
727| */
728|-> grp = get_local_group (list);
729|
730| /*
Existing help output advertises --force as a long opt.
-f, --force delete group even if it is the primary group of a user
But errors when the long opt is used.
groupdel: unrecognized option '--force'
Signed-off-by: Jamin W. Collins <jamin.collins@gmail.com>
The login.defs is shared between more upstream projects (util-linux,
etc.). We need to improve compatibility between the projects do not
report valid, but foreign items.
Addresses: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/276
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Some of these tests seem wrong. The assume that
su -- -c command
should work, whereas -- should mean pass all remaining arguments
along to the command.
Add some new tests based on examples in Issue 253
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <shallyn@cisco.com>
It's now possible to run commands as other users without shell
interpolation by using "--exec":
Read /etc/shadow as root without specifying user:
```
su --exec /bin/cat -- /etc/shadow
```
Or specify user:
```
su --exec /bin/cat root -- /etc/shadow
```
Mechanical rename distinguishing this variable from intended changes
supporting executing commands without using an interpretive shell
(i.e. no '/bin/sh -c').
In preparation for supporting --exec I was testing the robustness
of "--" handling and it became apparent that things are currently
a bit broken in `su`.
Since "--" is currently of limited utility, as the subsequent
words are simply passed to the shell after "-c","command_string",
it seems to have gone unnoticed for ages.
However, with --exec, it's expected that "--" would be an almost
required separator with every such usage, considering the
following flags must be passed verbatim to execve() and will
likely begin with hyphens looking indistinguishable from any
other flags in lieu of shell interpolation to worry about.
For some practical context of the existing situation, this
invocation doesn't work today:
```
$ su --command ls -- flags for shell
No passwd entry for user 'flags'
$
```
This should just run ls as root with "flags","for","shell"
forwarded to the shell after "-c","ls".
The "--" should block "flags" from being treated as the user.
That particular issue isn't a getopt one per-se, it's arguably
just a bug in su.c's implementation.
It *seemed* like an easy fix for this would be to add a check if
argv[optind-1] were "--" before treating argv[optind] as USER.
But testing that fix revealed getopt was rearranging things when
encountering "--", the "--" would always separate the handled
opts from the unhandled ones. USER would become shifted to
*after* "--" even when it occurred before it!
If we change the command to specify the user, it works as-is:
```
$ su --command ls root -- flags for shell
Password:
testfile
$
```
But what's rather surprising is how that works; the argv winds up:
"su","--command","ls","--","root","flags","for","shell"
with optind pointing at "root".
That arrangement of argv is indistinguishable from omitting the
user and having "root","flags","for","shell" as the stuff after
"--".
This makes it non-trivial to fix the bug of omitting user
treating the first word after "--" as the user, which one could
argue is a potentially serious security bug if you omit the user,
expect the command to run as root, and the first word after "--"
is a valid user, and what follows that something valid and
potentially destructive not only running in unintended form but
as whatever user happened to be the first word after "--".
So, it seems like something important to fix, and getopt seems to
be getting in the way of fixing it properly without being more
trouble than replacing getopt.
In disbelief of what I was seeing getopt doing with argv here, I
took a glance at the getopt source and found the following:
```
/* The special ARGV-element '--' means premature end of options.
Skip it like a null option,
then exchange with previous non-options as if it were an option,
then skip everything else like a non-option. */
if (d->optind != argc && !strcmp (argv[d->optind], "--"))
```
I basically never use getopt personally because ages ago it
annoyed me with its terrible API for what little it brought to
the table, and this brings it to a whole new level of awful.
