There are several issues with changing the real, effective, and saved group
and user ids in different environments (which methods to call, in what order,
etc).  While the code being replaced by this patch appeared to work for Linux,
Solaris, and (with a special case test) Darwin; it was failing under AIX and
may have had edge-case problems under the others.

Ruby back to 1.8.1 has supported a higher level interface that deals with the
problem and captures a broader range of OSes; it's a single call for group and
one for user--the details of rid/eid/svid, etc ordering are handled internally.
Switching to that simplifies our code and should improve/unify our support of
various OSes.

Signed-off-by: Markus Roberts <[email protected]>
---
 lib/puppet/util.rb |   21 ++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/puppet/util.rb b/lib/puppet/util.rb
index 503c02b..73ff6bb 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/util.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/util.rb
@@ -285,28 +285,15 @@ module Util
             # Child process executes this
             Process.setsid
             begin
-                if arguments[:stdinfile]
-                    $stdin.reopen(arguments[:stdinfile])
-                else
-                    $stdin.reopen("/dev/null")
-                end
+                $stdin.reopen(arguments[:stdinfile] || "/dev/null")
                 $stdout.reopen(output_file)
                 $stderr.reopen(error_file)
 
                 3.upto(256){|fd| IO::new(fd).close rescue nil}
-                if arguments[:gid]
-                    Process.egid = arguments[:gid]
-                    Process.gid = arguments[:gid] unless @@os == "Darwin"
-                end
-                if arguments[:uid]
-                    Process.euid = arguments[:uid]
-                    Process.uid = arguments[:uid] unless @@os == "Darwin"
-                end
+                Process::GID.change_privilege arguments[:gid] if 
arguments[:gid]
+                Process::UID.change_privilege arguments[:uid] if 
arguments[:uid]
                 ENV['LANG'] = ENV['LC_ALL'] = ENV['LC_MESSAGES'] = 
ENV['LANGUAGE'] = 'C'
-                if command.is_a?(Array)
-                    Kernel.exec(*command)
-                else
-                    Kernel.exec(command)
+                Kernel.exec(*command)
                 end
             rescue => detail
                 puts detail.to_s
-- 
1.6.4

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