On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Checked in openbsd 5.6. > > 2015/05/31 23:38 "Joel Rees" <joel.r...@gmail.com>: >> >> I have a home directory buried one deep in a directory owned by a >> non-login user: >> >> /home >> /home/bubble >> /home/bubble/userA >> >> where /home/bubble is owned by user/group bubble, with read and search >> permissions set for owner and group. userA is a member of the bubble >> group. >> >> Login says the home directory does not exist. >> >> When I make /home/bubble world readable, login finds the home directory. > > 5.6 has the same behavior here, even without special login classes. > >> Once logged in, when I try to >> >> sudo -H -u userB firefox >> >> it appears to try to start firefox, then give up. Nothing special in >> the logs, that I have noticed. > > Similar in 5.6, but more noise from firefox, so that I can see it is trying > to start. No error message in /var/log or on stdout to explain why it gives > up. > >> userB is s a member of the userA group. > > So I have to correct this: > >> sudo-ing firefox worked in 5.6. I'm not sure about the login stuff > > None of this worked as I decribe it here in openbsd 5.6. I think I'm going > to assume that the firefox engineers must have recently decided that hiding > user directories was a suspicious, malware-like activity. Or something.
sudo -H -u userB -s "cd; firefox" seems to work. I Haven't tried all the variations, but it looks like I just needed to get the working directory set to userB's home directory. Which makes sense. Guess I was forgetting how sudo works. >> dmesg below: >>[...] Sorry to use the list as a place to talk to myself. -- Joel Rees
