>>> Norm Green <[email protected]> schrieb am 15.04.2021 um 23:33 in
Nachricht <[email protected]>:
> Hello LDAP users and maintainers,
> 
> libraries/libldap/init.c has this code which bypasses read all LDAP 
> config env vars when the exe loadlig libldap is running in setuid mode.
> 
> This is causing problems for one of our customers who routinely run our 
> product Linux executables (which load our libldap) in setuid mode for 
> legitimate purposes.
> Since we have the source, we can and may change this code.
> 
> In our case, customer wants to set env var LDAPCONF to point at a 
> non-default conf file but is unable to do so. In fact this code bypasses 
> almost all ways an alternate config file can be read.

I wonder what the use case is.

> Even $HOME/ldap.conf is not read.
> 
> My question here is should this code be considered a bug and changed to 
> be less restrictive? I fully appreciate there should be restrictions 
> when in setuid mode but the current code seems too restrictive.
> 
> 
> init.c:
> 686
> 687         openldap_ldap_init_w_sysconf(LDAP_CONF_FILE);
> 688
> 689 #ifdef HAVE_GETEUID
> 690         if ( geteuid() != getuid() )
> 691                 goto done;
> 692 #endif
> 693
> 694         openldap_ldap_init_w_userconf(LDAP_USERRC_FILE);
> 695
> 
> 
> Norm Green
> GemTalk Systems LLC



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