Hi! On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 18:00:29 +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.0.3 > Severity: normal > > start-stop-daemon is expected (as per man page) to set the supplemental > groups of a user when called with option "-c user:group". > This happens if the user is given in cleartext, not when passed as number. > Both are legal based on the man page. > > Behaviour verified on latest Debian stable 6.0.2 (vanilla live image) > and on current Debian testing/unstable (dpkg 1.16.0.3). > [test-case] > > Tracking it down in the source, the culprit is the call to initgroups(). > It's defined as "int initgroups(const char *user, gid_t group)", but > apparently only works with cleartext usernames, but not with an uid > passed as text. In the latter two cases (-c 1000:whatever), the user is > passed as string containing a number, i.e. "1000". > Unfortunately, initgroups() still returns 0 for success in this case...
Thanks for tracking this down! I've fixed it locally, will be included in my next push. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
