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STINNER Victor added the comment: A few minor tests are still failing when the uid doesn't exist in the password database, but the main issue in pwdhas been fixed and distutils should work more or lesss. I close this 8 years old issue. Thanks to everyone who has been involved in helping to

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset ea6b322829c62951362f267d7afdd262aa2b3e2c by Victor Stinner in branch '2.7': bpo-10496: distutils check_environ() handles getpwuid() error (GH-10931) (GH-11213) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ea6b322829c62951362f267d7afdd262aa2b3e2c

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miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 6e96fb44f12c2e9d7ab0d14a21f2aa85ecaa2f83 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-10496: distutils check_environ() handles getpwuid() error (GH-10931) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6e96fb44f12c2e9d7ab0d14a21f2aa85ecaa2f83

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 17d0c0595e101c4ce76b58e55de37e6b5083e6cd by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-10496: distutils check_environ() handles getpwuid() error (GH-10931) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/17d0c0595e101c4ce76b58e55de37e6b5083e6cd

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset b50b33b4ac62c8798199682e511b2028f2d3ec42 by Victor Stinner in branch '2.7': bpo-10496: posixpath.expanduser() catchs pwd.getpwuid() error (GH-10919) (GH-10930) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b50b33b4ac62c8798199682e511b2028f2d3ec42

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 31b635dbf0c7108f18bb3ce382b895374cff77fb by Victor Stinner in branch '3.6': bpo-10496: posixpath.expanduser() catchs pwd.getpwuid() error (GH-10919) (GH-10925) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/31b635dbf0c7108f18bb3ce382b895374cff77fb

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miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 983d1ab0e6f4280f954bcba87db76e11131f1c33 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-10496: posixpath.expanduser() catchs pwd.getpwuid() error (GH-10919) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/983d1ab0e6f4280f954bcba87db76e11131f1c33

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STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset f2f4555d8287ad217a1dba7bbd93103ad4daf3a8 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-10496: posixpath.expanduser() catchs pwd.getpwuid() error (GH-10919) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f2f4555d8287ad217a1dba7bbd93103ad4daf3a8

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Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: > Would it make sense to backport this fix in 3.6 and 3.7? I'd like to see it there, given that this bug surfaced in many use cases not involving any modern features or systemd at all. -- ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor added the comment: Yes, I plan to try to backport the fix to stable branches. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: > I prefer to stick to the initial bug report which hasn't been fixed in 8 years I'm interested in fixing this bug too since it bit me in SCons and I had to use a local patch for it. I welcome the upstream fix and don't object to PR 10919. I'm not

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Antoine Pietri added the comment: Would it make sense to backport this fix in 3.6 and 3.7? As distros increasingly move in the direction of using DynamicUser=yes for most stateless services, it would really help to have that, for instance in Debian Buster (which will probably be on 3.7 if

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STINNER Victor added the comment: > If I understood PR 10919 correctly, sysconfig.get_config_var('userbase') can > now return unexpanded paths containing '~'. Is it intended despite the > previous discussion starting with msg135047? With my PR 10919, "python3 setup.py install" and "python3

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Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: If I understood PR 10919 correctly, sysconfig.get_config_var('userbase') can now return unexpanded paths containing '~'. Is it intended despite the previous discussion starting with msg135047? -- nosy: +izbyshev

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STINNER Victor added the comment: I wrote PR #10919 which fix posix.expandpath() and also fix indirectly the site module. @Antoine Pietri: Would you mind to try the fix? -- ___ Python tracker

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Antoine Pietri added the comment: Trivial way to reproduce, run this as root: systemd-run -p DynamicUser=yes -t python3 -- nosy: +antoine.pietri ___ Python tracker ___

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STINNER Victor added the comment: According to seirl on IRC, this issue is trigged when a Python application is run by systemd using DynamicUser=yes: "DynamicUser: Takes a boolean parameter. If set, a UNIX user and group pair is allocated dynamically when the unit is started, and released

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STINNER Victor added the comment: user.py: short Python script to reproduce the bug. It runs Python as user 12345, group 12345 and unset the HOME environment variable to reproduce the bug. The python binary must be readable and executable by any user, especially uid

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Nicholas Brown added the comment: This is also a problem when using the DynamicUser=yes feature available in systemd 232 onward with a service that's implemented in python. See http://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html for details of the DynamicUser=

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R. David Murray added the comment: Dmitriy: you will note from the discussion on this issue that your "simple patch" was not considered sufficient. There were additional concerns voiced about haypo's patch, which is why I guess it didn't get applied. However, can you review that and confirm

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R. David Murray added the comment: Unless I'm mistaken, this has come up again in issue 31469. -- nosy: +cinerar, r.david.murray ___ Python tracker ___

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Suraj Deshmukh added the comment: @grahamd thanks this helps. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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Graham Dumpleton added the comment: @surajd Why aren't you using the Python S2I builders for OpenShift? When you run anything under OpenShift, it will assign your project a UID which any containers are forced to run under. The OpenShift containers include a mechanism using a package call

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Suraj Deshmukh added the comment: I did not encounter this issue in fedora24 based container on docker but when I run it in openshift I see errors as: That container has `Python 2.7.12` installed. While `flask` and `redis` python libs are installed via pip. ``` bash:

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Yury V. Zaytsev added the comment: Another scenario how this could happen is when Python interpreter is run from a scheduled job on a BlueGene/Q node by the CNK; this is a minimalist execution environment where getpwuid() is unable to resolve home directories for UIDs running the jobs.

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Stéphane Wirtel added the comment: Hi @victor I have compiled the bug.c file with my fedora 24. there is python 2.7.11 and 3.5.1 and I don't have the bug with these versions. What can we do with this issue ? Thanks, Stephane -- nosy: +matrixise

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Jonathon Reinhart added the comment: I have another scenario where this happens: Running Python in a Docker container, passing the --user option to 'docker run'. This sets the UID in the container, which has its own /etc/passwd. Couple this with the fact that $HOME might not be set (e.g. when

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Charles-François Natali added the comment: Is there a hope to get this fixed? It can be needed to e.g. run python as nobody user (used for example for CGI scripts, etc). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10496

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STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com added the comment: I’d be happy to update it to address my remarks if you want me to. Please write your own patch addressing your concerns. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: I reviewed haypo’s patch. I’d be happy to update it to address my remarks if you want me to. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10496