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and subject line Bug#245017: fixed in tftp-hpa 5.0-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #245017,
regarding tftpd-hpa: Fails with "cannot set groups for user nobody"
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Package: tftpd-hpa
Version: 0.36-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to POSIX)
Versions of packages tftpd-hpa depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
-- no debconf information
Trying to use tftpd-hpa to netboot a x86 Linux machine. The netbooting machine
gets a DHCP address and attempts to connect to tftpd but this fails. In syslog
I get a set of messages like this:
Apr 21 10:30:53 ook in.tftpd[30760]: cannot set groups for user nobody
Apr 21 10:30:53 ook in.tftpd[30761]: cannot set groups for user nobody
Apr 21 10:30:55 ook in.tftpd[30762]: cannot set groups for user nobody
I had a look at the code and the relevant area is this:
setrv = initgroups(user, pw->pw_gid);
if ( setrv ) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot set groups for user %", user);
exit(EX_OSERR);
}
By adding a bit of debugging code I figured out that initgroups was failing
with an EPERM. This is a bit odd because when inetd starts in.tftpd it is
already running as nobody:nogroup and the initgroups call is only asking it
to be set to nogroup. Maybe this is a bug in the initgroups() function.
I've now hacked the code by commenting out the exit() statement above and
the netboot machine can now grab pxelinux.0. I can understand if this not
the right solution, but it worked for me ;-).
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Source: tftp-hpa
Source-Version: 5.0-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tftp-hpa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tftp-hpa_5.0-2.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.0-2.diff.gz
tftp-hpa_5.0-2.dsc
to pool/main/t/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.0-2.dsc
tftp-hpa_5.0-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tftp-hpa/tftp-hpa_5.0-2_i386.deb
tftpd-hpa_5.0-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tftp-hpa/tftpd-hpa_5.0-2_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated tftp-hpa package)
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:27:27 +0200
Source: tftp-hpa
Binary: tftp-hpa tftpd-hpa
Architecture: source i386
Version: 5.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
Description:
tftp-hpa - HPA's tftp client
tftpd-hpa - HPA's tftp server
Closes: 245017
Changes:
tftp-hpa (5.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Adding forgotten bug numbers to previous changelog entry.
* Now running always as unprivileged user (Closes: #245017).
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