On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ales,
>
> Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com>
>

Thanks.  I applied this patch to the main branch.  Does this require a
backport ?

Numan


> On 3/25/24 06:40, Ales Musil wrote:
> > The ovn-ctl utility was assuming that the user/group is always root,
> > when not specified otherwise by the --ovn-user/--ovn-group options.
> > This has the consequence of trying to change permissions of OVN
> > directories to root:root even though the script might be run as
> > completely different user.
> >
> > Take the current user and group instead of the hardcoded root.
> > At the same time remove the ovs-user option as it was not used for
> > anything and might be confusing.
> >
> > Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-245
> > Signed-off-by: Ales Musil <amu...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   utilities/ovn-ctl       | 5 ++---
> >   utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml | 1 -
> >   utilities/ovn-lib.in    | 4 ++--
> >   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/utilities/ovn-ctl b/utilities/ovn-ctl
> > index 700efe35a..dae5e22f4 100755
> > --- a/utilities/ovn-ctl
> > +++ b/utilities/ovn-ctl
> > @@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ $cluster_remote_port
> >       # Set the owner of the ovn_dbdir (with -R option) to OVN_USER if
> set.
> >       # This is required because the ovndbs are created with root
> permission
> >       # if not present when create_cluster/upgrade_db is called.
> > -    INSTALL_USER="root"
> > -    INSTALL_GROUP="root"
> > +    INSTALL_USER="$(id -un)"
> > +    INSTALL_GROUP="$(id -gn)"
> >       [ "$OVN_USER" != "" ] && INSTALL_USER="${OVN_USER%:*}"
> >       [ "${OVN_USER##*:}" != "" ] && INSTALL_GROUP="${OVN_USER##*:}"
> >
> > @@ -1088,7 +1088,6 @@ Options:
> >     --ovn-ic-sb-db-ssl-protocols=PROTOCOLS OVN IC Southbound DB SSL
> protocols
> >     --ovn-ic-sb-db-ssl-ciphers=CIPHERS OVN IC Southbound DB SSL cipher
> list
> >     --ovn-user="user[:group]"      pass the --user flag to the ovn
> daemons
> > -  --ovs-user="user[:group]"      pass the --user flag to ovs daemons
> >     --ovsdb-nb-wrapper=WRAPPER     run with a wrapper like valgrind for
> debugging
> >     --ovsdb-sb-wrapper=WRAPPER     run with a wrapper like valgrind for
> debugging
> >     --ovsdb-disable-file-column-diff=no|yes
> > diff --git a/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml b/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
> > index 57712bfdc..c0fbb0792 100644
> > --- a/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
> > +++ b/utilities/ovn-ctl.8.xml
> > @@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
> >       <p><code>--ovsdb-nb-wrapper=<var>WRAPPER</var></code></p>
> >       <p><code>--ovsdb-sb-wrapper=<var>WRAPPER</var></code></p>
> >       <p><code>--ovn-user=<var>USER:GROUP</var></code></p>
> > -    <p><code>--ovs-user=<var>USER:GROUP</var></code></p>
> >       <p><code>-h</code> | <code>--help</code></p>
> >
> >       <h1>File location options</h1>
> > diff --git a/utilities/ovn-lib.in b/utilities/ovn-lib.in
> > index 1e48ef28c..65cbfbcdc 100644
> > --- a/utilities/ovn-lib.in
> > +++ b/utilities/ovn-lib.in
> > @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
> >   ovn_install_dir () {
> >       DIR="$1"
> >       INSTALL_MODE="${2:-755}"
> > -    INSTALL_USER="root"
> > -    INSTALL_GROUP="root"
> > +    INSTALL_USER="$(id -un)"
> > +    INSTALL_GROUP="$(id -gn)"
> >       [ "$OVN_USER" != "" ] && INSTALL_USER="${OVN_USER%:*}"
> >       [ "${OVN_USER##*:}" != "" ] && INSTALL_GROUP="${OVN_USER##*:}"
> >
>
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