Closes#185
If vipw is suspended (e.g. via control-Z) and then resumed, it often gets
immediately suspended. This is easier to reproduce on a multi-core system.
root@buster:~# /usr/sbin/vipw
[1]+ Stopped /usr/sbin/vipw
root@buster:~# fg
/usr/sbin/vipw
[1]+ Stopped /usr/sbin/vipw
root@buster:~# fg
[vipw resumes on the second fg]
The problem is that vipw forks a child process and calls waitpid() with the
WUNTRACED flag. When the child process (running the editor) is suspended, the
parent sends itself SIGSTOP to suspend the main vipw process. However, because
the main vipw is in the same process group as the editor which received the ^Z,
the kernel already sent the main vipw SIGTSTP.
If the main vipw receives SIGTSTP before the child, it will be suspended and
then, once resumed, will proceed to suspend itself again.
To fix this, run the child process in its own process group as the foreground
process group. That way, control-Z will only affect the child process and the
parent can use the existing logic to suspend the parent.
Some distributions, notably Fedora, have the following order of nsswitch
modules by default:
passwd: sss files
group: sss files
The advantage of serving local users through SSSD is that the nss_sss
module has a fast mmapped-cache that speeds up NSS lookups compared to
accessing the disk an opening the files on each NSS request.
Traditionally, this has been done with the help of nscd, but using nscd
in parallel with sssd is cumbersome, as both SSSD and nscd use their own
independent caching, so using nscd in setups where sssd is also serving
users from some remote domain (LDAP, AD, ...) can result in a bit of
unpredictability.
More details about why Fedora chose to use sss before files can be found
on e.g.:
https://fedoraproject.org//wiki/Changes/SSSDCacheForLocalUsers
or:
https://docs.pagure.org/SSSD.sssd/design_pages/files_provider.html
Now, even though sssd watches the passwd and group files with the help
of inotify, there can still be a small window where someone requests a
user or a group, finds that it doesn't exist, adds the entry and checks
again. Without some support in shadow-utils that would explicitly drop
the sssd caches, the inotify watch can fire a little late, so a
combination of commands like this:
getent passwd user || useradd user; getent passwd user
can result in the second getent passwd not finding the newly added user
as the racy behaviour might still return the cached negative hit from
the first getent passwd.
This patch more or less copies the already existing support that
shadow-utils had for dropping nscd caches, except using the "sss_cache"
tool that sssd ships.
boolean.
* libmisc/basename.c: Avoid implicit conversion of pointer to
boolean.
* libmisc/basename.c, lib/prototypes.h (Basename): Return a
constant string.
* libmisc/basename.c, libmisc/obscure.c, lib/prototypes.h,
libmisc/xmalloc.c, libmisc/getdate.h, libmisc/system.c,
libmisc/getgr_nam_gid.c, libmisc/failure.c, libmisc/valid.c: Add
splint annotations.
* libmisc/chowndir.c: Avoid memory leak.
* libmisc/chowndir.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/chowntty.c: Avoid implicit conversion between integer
types.
* libmisc/obscure.c: Return a bool when possible instead of int.
* libmisc/shell.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/shell.c: Do not check execle return value.
* libmisc/setupenv.c: Avoid implicit conversion between integer
types.
* libmisc/xmalloc.c: size should not be zero to avoid returning
NULL pointers.
* libmisc/hushed.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/system.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to
boolean. safe_system last argument is a boolean.
* libmisc/system.c: Check return value of dup2.
* libmisc/system.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/system.c: Do not check execve return value.
* libmisc/salt.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/loginprompt.c: Do not check gethostname return value.
* libmisc/find_new_gid.c, libmisc/find_new_uid.c: Do not check
gr_rewind/pw_rewind return value.
* libmisc/ttytype.c: Limit the number of parsed characters in the
sscanf format.
* libmisc/ttytype.c: Test if a type was really read.
* libmisc/sub.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/sub.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to boolean.
* src/userdel.c: Fix typo in comment.
* src/userdel.c: Avoid implicit conversion of boolean to integer.
* src/userdel.c: safe_system last argument is a boolean.
* src/newusers.c: Avoid implicit conversion of boolean to integer.
* src/newusers.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to boolean.
* src/usermod.c: Add brackets.
* src/usermod.c: Avoid implicit conversion of characters or
integers to booleans.
* src/vipw.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to boolean.
* src/su.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to boolean.
* src/su.c: Add brackets.
* src/useradd.c: Avoid implicit conversion of characters or
integers to booleans.
instead of an int.
* libmisc/obscure.c, libmisc/tz.c, src/passwd.c, lib/encrypt.c,
libmisc/copydir.c, lib/prototypes.h: Add splint annotations.
* libmisc/tz.c: Fix some const issues.
* libmisc/tz.c: Avoid multi-statements lines.
* libmisc/tz.c: Add brackets.
* libmisc/copydir.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* libmisc/copydir.c: Fail if we cannot set or reset the SELinux
fscreate context.
* libmisc/copydir.c: Use xmalloc instead of malloc.
* libmisc/copydir.c: Do not check lutimes return value
* src/vipw.c: Avoid implicit conversion of integer to boolean.
* src/su.c (iswheel): Return a bool instead of an int.
* src/passwd.c: Remove insert_crypt_passwd(). Use xstrdup instead.
* src/passwd.c: Return constant strings when sufficient.
* src/passwd.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* src/passwd.c: Avoid implicit conversion of character to boolean.
* src/passwd.c: Do not check sleep return value.
* src/sulogin.c: Do not check *printf/*puts return value.
* lib/encrypt.c: Do not check fprintf return value.
libmisc/sulog.c, libmisc/hushed.c, libmisc/failure.c,
libmisc/loginprompt.c, libmisc/ttytype.c,
libmisc/pam_pass_non_interractive.c, src/userdel.c, src/login.c,
lib/commonio.c, lib/commonio.h: Fix some const issues.
* libmisc/motd.c: Avoid multi-statements lines.
* libmisc/motd.c: Support long MOTD_FILE.
* libmisc/list.c, lib/prototypes.h: Revert previous change.
dup_list and is_on_list are used with members as defined for the
group structure, and thus even if the list is not modified, the
list elements cannot be constant strings.
* libmisc/system.c: Avoid C++ comments.
* src/vipw.c: WITH_TCB cannot be tested inside a gettextized
string. Split the Usage string.
* lib/commonio.h: Re-indent.
* src/login_nopam.c: Limit the scope of variables end, lineno, i,
str_len.
* src/logoutd.c: Limit the scope of variable c.
* src/vipw.c: Re-indent.
* src/vipw.c: Close the file after the creation of the backup.
* src/useradd.c (set_default): Close input file on failure.
* src/useradd.c: Limit the scope of variables spool, file, fd, gr,
gid, mode.
* src/passwd.c: Limit the scope of variables last and ok.
* src/chage.c: Fix typo (non breaking space).
* src/login.c: Limit the scope of variables erasechar killchar, c,
failed.
* src/groups.c: Limit the scope of variable ngroups, pri_grp, i.
* src/id.c: Limit the scope of variable i.
* src/vipw.c: Avoid implicit conversion of pointers or integers to
booleans.
* src/vipw.c: Added brackets and parenthesis.
* src/vipw.c: Limit the definition of some variables and macros to
the WITH_TCB scope.
* src/vipw.c: Avoid assignment in comparisons.
* src/vipw.c: Replace PASSWD_FILE (resp. GROUP_FILE and
SGROUP_FILE) by pw_dbname () (resp. gr_dbname () and sgr_dbname ()).
This is more consistent with the shadow file handling and may be
useful to allow edition of another partition's files.
* NEWS: Add support for TCB.
* lib/tcbfuncs.h, lib/tcbfuncs.c, lib/Makefile.am: New library to
support TCB.
* lib/prototypes, libmisc/copydir.c (remove_tree): Add boolean
parameter remove_root.
* configure.in: Add conditional WITH_TCB.
* src/userdel.c, src/usermod.c: Add support for TCB. Update call to
remove_tree().
* src/pwconv.c, src/pwunconv.c: Should not be used with TCB enabled.
* src/vipw.c: Add support for TCB. Update call to remove_tree().
* src/useradd.c: Add support for TCB. Open the shadow file outside
of open_files().
* src/chage.c: Add support for TCB.
* src/Makefile.am: Install passwd sgid shadow when TCB is enabled.
* lib/getdefs.c, man/vipw.8.xml, man/login.defs.5.xml,
man/login.defs/TCB_AUTH_GROUP.xml, man/login.defs/USE_TCB.xml,
man/login.defs/TCB_SYMLINKS.xml, man/generate_mans.mak,
man/generate_mans.deps, man/Makefile.am: New configuration
parameters: TCB_AUTH_GROUP, TCB_SYMLINKS, USE_TCB.
* lib/shadowio.c, lib/commonio.c: Add support for TCB.
src/chpasswd.c, src/groupmems.c, src/usermod.c, src/chgpasswd.c,
src/vipw.c, src/su.c, src/useradd.c, src/groupmod.c, src/passwd.c,
src/groupadd.c, src/chage.c, src/faillog.c, src/chsh.c: Use
booleans for tests.
* src/userdel.c, src/gpasswd.c, src/groupmems.c, src/usermod.c,
src/groupmod.c, src/passwd.c: Use a break even after usage().
src/newusers.c, src/chpasswd.c, src/groupmems.c, src/usermod.c,
src/chgpasswd.c, src/vipw.c, src/su.c, src/useradd.c,
src/groupmod.c, src/passwd.c, src/groupadd.c, src/chage.c,
src/faillog.c, src/chsh.c: If someone uses the -h/--help options,
the usage should not go to stderr nor should the utility exit with
non-zero status. All of the shadow utils do just this
unfortunately, so convert them over to sanity.
* man/groupmems.8.xml, man/gpasswd.1.xml: Added option -h/--help.
* src/grpconv.c, src/grpunconv.c, src/pwconv.c, src/pwunconv.c,
src/vipw.c: Open syslog with the right identification name.
* src/vipw.c: Log unlock errors to syslog.
* src/vipw.c: Log edits to syslog.
* src/chage.c, src/chfn.c, src/chsh.c, src/gpasswd.c,
src/groupadd.c, src/groupdel.c, src/groupmod.c, src/grpconv.c,
src/grpunconv.c, src/passwd.c, src/pwck.c, src/pwunconv.c,
src/useradd.c, src/usermod.c: Harmonize the syslog levels. Failure
to close or unlock are errors. Failure to open files are warnings.
src/groupmod.c, src/grpck.c, src/login.c, src/logoutd.c,
src/newgrp.c, src/newusers.c, src/passwd.c, src/pwck.c,
src/suauth.c, src/useradd.c, src/userdel.c, src/usermod.c,
src/vipw.c: Complete the switch from the `' quotation style to ''.
Do it also in SYSLOG messages. Quote some parameters. All this
permits to merge some messages.
* src/vipw.c: Ignore the return value of umask(), when the mask is
set again to the old value.
* src/vipw.c: Avoid implicit conversion of pointers / integers to
booleans.
* src/vipw.c: Add brackets and parenthesis.
* src/vipw.c: Avoid assignments in comparisons.
* src/vipw.c: Ignore return value of setlocale(),
bindtextdomain(), and textdomain().
* src/vipw.c: Add missing termination of the longopts parameter
for getopt_long().
SIGSTOP handling. Raise the signal which stopped the child instead
of always SIGSTOP.
Import Debian patch 406_vipw_resume_properly.
Thanks to Dean Gaudet.
* NEWS, src/vipw.c: Resume properly after ^Z.
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were mostly not recorded; they were updated according to the Changelog.
"Julianne Frances Haugh and contributors" changed to "copyright holders
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