Pablo Abelenda <pabele...@igalia.com> writes:
> Package: mandos
> Version: 1.6.9
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I've been making a mandos server setup. The service and the servers
> it has to unlock are running on different networks and, due to this,
> zeroconf is not useful for me. As I was not using zeroconf, avahi
> service was not running while running all my tests.
>
> Thing is that, while starting up mandos server with the init script,
> I obtained the following error:
>
> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
> ERROR: Introspect error on org.freedesktop.Avahi:/: \
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.FileInvalid: \
> Cannot do system-bus activation with no user
> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>
> I asked myself why was mandos trying to communicate with Avahi if
> I have configured zeroconf to be false? I then tried to manually
> run the service like this:
>
> mandos --no-zeroconf
>
> This time the service started up correctly.
>
> Taking a look around I ended up on the options parsing section of
> /usr/sbin/mandos. Seems like zeroconf option is missing there,
> therefore, not matter True or False, service will be always trying
> to use zeroconf, as the default value is True.
>
> --- mandos.orig 2017-02-20 15:11:40.228977179 +0100
> +++ mandos 2017-02-20 15:12:18.381015090 +0100
> @@ -2370,7 +2370,7 @@
> # Convert the SafeConfigParser object to a dict
> server_settings = server_config.defaults()
> # Use the appropriate methods on the non-string config options
> - for option in ("debug", "use_dbus", "use_ipv6", "foreground"):
> + for option in ("debug", "use_dbus", "use_ipv6", "foreground",
> "zeroconf"):
> server_settings[option] = server_config.getboolean("DEFAULT",
> option)
> if server_settings["port"]:
>
> With this little modification, things started to work as expected.
>
> I've also looked to the sid package as well, and seems to be having
> the same issue.
>
> Many thanks in advance for taking care of this.Many thanks for the bug report and fix! It seems the "restore" options was also affected by the same bug. I have committed a fix to trunk; I will make a full release with this after I have made some tests. /Teddy Hogeborn -- The Mandos Project https://www.recompile.se/mandos
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