Thread: [SSI-users] OpenSSI bugs
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From: Maxime R. <max...@th...> - 2004-02-27 16:17:49
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Hi, I have installed OpenSSI on a RH9 distro. The install worked fine, but now: - sudo doesn't work anylonger. It tells me /var/run/sudo hasn't got the good rights... OpenSSI did a symlink with this directory, but I can't understand why. - can't install a rpm file. My cluster is frozen at the moment, I'll post the exact error message later unless it's a known bug. Are there any workaround available for those bugs ? -- Maxime Ritter |
From: Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...> - 2004-02-27 22:02:56
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Maxime Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed OpenSSI on a RH9 distro. The install worked fine, but now: > - sudo doesn't work anylonger. It tells me /var/run/sudo hasn't got the > good rights... OpenSSI did a symlink with this directory, but I can't > understand why. I'll take a look at this. > - can't install a rpm file. My cluster is frozen at the moment, I'll post > the exact error message later unless it's a known bug. I think what you're seeing is a known Red Hat bug that for some reason happens more often on OpenSSI. You can work around it with 'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.18'. In the next release of OpenSSI, I'll include the 4.2-1 version of rpm, which fixes this problem. Brian |
From: John B. <joh...@hp...> - 2004-02-27 23:25:20
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Brian J. Watson wrote: > Maxime Ritter wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have installed OpenSSI on a RH9 distro. The install worked fine, but >> now: >> - sudo doesn't work anylonger. It tells me /var/run/sudo hasn't got the >> good rights... OpenSSI did a symlink with this directory, but I >> can't understand why. > > > I'll take a look at this. The problem's in the pam_timestamp module. It has a very specific check to make sure none of the elements of a pathname have been symlinked. (Security, you know.) > >> - can't install a rpm file. My cluster is frozen at the moment, I'll >> post the exact error message later unless it's a known bug. > > > I think what you're seeing is a known Red Hat bug that for some reason > happens more often on OpenSSI. You can work around it with 'export > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.18'. In the next release of OpenSSI, I'll include > the 4.2-1 version of rpm, which fixes this problem. > > Brian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Ssic-linux-users mailing list > Ssi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ssic-linux-users > |
From: John B. <joh...@hp...> - 2004-02-28 00:05:12
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John Byrne wrote: > Brian J. Watson wrote: > >> Maxime Ritter wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have installed OpenSSI on a RH9 distro. The install worked fine, >>> but now: >>> - sudo doesn't work anylonger. It tells me /var/run/sudo hasn't got the >>> good rights... OpenSSI did a symlink with this directory, but I >>> can't understand why. >> >> >> >> I'll take a look at this. > > > The problem's in the pam_timestamp module. It has a very specific check > to make sure none of the elements of a pathname have been symlinked. > (Security, you know.) > Actually, it isn't. pam_timestamp has a similar problem. This one looks like it is sudo itself. So, we get to fix both of them to cope with the symlink. John |
From: Maxime R. <max...@th...> - 2004-03-01 11:15:26
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:52:00PM -0800, Brian J. Watson wrote: > >- can't install a rpm file. My cluster is frozen at the moment, I'll post > > the exact error message later unless it's a known bug. > I think what you're seeing is a known Red Hat bug that for some reason > happens more often on OpenSSI. You can work around it with 'export > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.18'. It was ; I could install my RPM with this workaround, many thanks. -- Maxime Ritter |
From: John B. <joh...@hp...> - 2004-02-28 00:10:12
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Maxime Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed OpenSSI on a RH9 distro. The install worked fine, but now: > - sudo doesn't work anylonger. It tells me /var/run/sudo hasn't got the > good rights... OpenSSI did a symlink with this directory, but I can't > understand why. The symlink exists becauses we have a single root filesystem and in some cases we need to run instances of daemons/services on multiple nodes which want to make entries in /var/run such as pid files. The easiest way not to have them get confused without rewriting them all was to make /var/run a context symlink to a per-node directory. Unfortunately, sudo uses the directory for its timestamps and has the test I mentioned in an earlier mail that checks the path for symlinks. So we will have to modify sudo and pam to fix the problems. John Byrne |