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Expand the error message when newuidmap / newgidmap do not like the user/group ownership of their target process.

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Currently the error is just:

newuidmap: Target [pid] is owned by a different user

With this patch it will be like:

newuidmap: Target [pid] is owned by a different user: uid:0 pw_uid:0 st_uid:0, gid:0 pw_gid:0 st_gid:99

Why is this useful?  Well, in my case...

The grsecurity kernel-hardening patch includes an option to make parts
of /proc unreadable, such as /proc/pid/ dirs for processes not owned by
the current uid.  This comes with an option to make /proc/pid/
directories readable by a specific gid; sysadmins and the like are then
put into that group so they can see a full 'ps'.

This means that the check in new[ug]idmap fails, as in the above quoted
error - /proc/[targetpid] is owned by root, but the group is 99 so that
users in group 99 can see the process.

Some Googling finds dozens of people hitting this problem, but not
*knowing* that they have hit this problem, because the errors and
circumstances are non-obvious.

Some graceful way of handling this and not failing, will be next ;)  But
in the meantime it'd be nice to have new[ug]idmap emit a more useful
error, so that it's easier to troubleshoot.

Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Hank Leininger <hlein@korelogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
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Hank Leininger 2015-04-06 08:22:48 -05:00 committed by Serge Hallyn
parent 464456fa31
commit 884895ae25
2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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src/newgidmap.c
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@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
(getgid() != pw->pw_gid) ||
(pw->pw_uid != st.st_uid) ||
(pw->pw_gid != st.st_gid)) {
fprintf(stderr, _( "%s: Target %u is owned by a different user\n" ),
Prog, target);
fprintf(stderr, _( "%s: Target %u is owned by a different user: uid:%lu pw_uid:%lu st_uid:%lu, gid:%lu pw_gid:%lu st_gid:%lu\n" ),
Prog, target,
(unsigned long int)getuid(), (unsigned long int)pw->pw_uid, (unsigned long int)st.st_uid,
(unsigned long int)getgid(), (unsigned long int)pw->pw_gid, (unsigned long int)st.st_gid);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

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src/newuidmap.c
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@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
(getgid() != pw->pw_gid) ||
(pw->pw_uid != st.st_uid) ||
(pw->pw_gid != st.st_gid)) {
fprintf(stderr, _( "%s: Target %u is owned by a different user\n" ),
Prog, target);
fprintf(stderr, _( "%s: Target process %u is owned by a different user: uid:%lu pw_uid:%lu st_uid:%lu, gid:%lu pw_gid:%lu st_gid:%lu\n" ),
Prog, target,
(unsigned long int)getuid(), (unsigned long int)pw->pw_uid, (unsigned long int)st.st_uid,
(unsigned long int)getgid(), (unsigned long int)pw->pw_gid, (unsigned long int)st.st_gid);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}