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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-03-03 01:54:36 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-03-13 14:07:45 +0000
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chroot: improve --userspec and --groups look-up
- Support arbitrary numbers in --groups, consistent with what is already done for --userspec - Avoid look-ups entirely for --groups items with a leading '+' - Support names that are actually numbers in --groups - Ignore an empty --groups="" option for consistency with --userspec - Look up both inside and outside the chroot with inside taking precedence. The look-up outside may load required libraries to complete the look-up inside the chroot. This can happen for example with a 32 bit chroot on a 64 bit system, where the 32 bit NSS plugins within the chroot fail to load. * src/chroot.c (parse_additional_groups): A new function refactored from set_addition_groups(), to just do the parsing. The actual setgroups() call is separated out for calling from the chroot later. (main): Call parse_user_spec() and parse_additional_groups() both outside and inside the chroot for the reasons outlined above. * tests/misc/chroot-credentials.sh: Ensure arbitrary numeric IDs can be specified without causing look-up errors. * NEWS: Mention the improvements. * THANKS.in: Add Norihiro Kamae who initially reported the issue with a proposed patch. Also thanks to Dmitry V. Levin for his diagnosis and sample patch.
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