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x2godbadmin + postgres + non-existent home directory = wrong ownerships
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When x2godbadmin is used with a postgres database, and the user name
given doesn't yet have a home directory, it creates this home directory.
(see line 368 and following of /usr/sbin/x2godbadmin).
However, it fails to set the proper UID/GID ownerships for
/home/<username> - only the files below it have the proper ownership.
The proper way how to determine the correct UID for /home/<username> is
simple - use the UID that has been determined previously and that is
used as $uid within /usr/sbin/x2godbadmin.
The proper way how to determine the correct *GID* is more tricky, I
believe. I can only speak for Debian here - this may be
distribution-specific:
You need to check if /etc/default/useradd contains a line
USERGROUPS_ENAB=yes
(which might also be "yes", or 'yes', or Yes, YES, ... you get the idea)
Check if that value is set to any variant of yes, or not set at all:
If yes: Check if the user already has a group named after them:
If yes, use the GID of that group.
If no, create a new group with a name matching the username,
and assign the GID of that group.
If no (meaning the value is set to any variant of no, "no", 'no', No, etc.):
Check if /etc/default/useradd contains a valid GID value for
a variable named GROUP:
If it does, assign that GID.
If it doesn't, assign GID 100.
This pseudocode builds on the documentation found in "man useradd" on
Debian Jessie, after confirming the default value of USERGROUPS_ENAB is,
in fact, "unset".
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Stefan Baur
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Hi, Stefan.
> When x2godbadmin is used with a postgres database, and the user name
> given doesn't yet have a home directory, it creates this home directory.
I've thought that creation of home directories is a task for useradd
(for local users) or pam_mkhomedir from libpam-modules (in case of
centralized database of network logins) and there may be even more
existing alternatives. Should this non-trivial code be implemented
once again in X2Go tools instead of trying to keep things closer to a
UNIX-way?
Cheers, Nable.
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Am 07.02.2017 um 23:14 schrieb Nable:
>> When x2godbadmin is used with a postgres database, and the user name
>> given doesn't yet have a home directory, it creates this home directory.
> I've thought that creation of home directories is a task for useradd
> (for local users) or pam_mkhomedir from libpam-modules (in case of
> centralized database of network logins) and there may be even more
> existing alternatives. Should this non-trivial code be implemented
> once again in X2Go tools instead of trying to keep things closer to a
> UNIX-way?
Well, there already is code in there that is doing it - it just does it
wrong in this particular case. Of course, we could argue that the
entire piece of code should be removed - but how would you handle things
in this particular case?
Having no /home/<username> is something that is most likely to happen
with non-local accounts.
pam_mkhomedir fixes this and creates it on the spot - IF, and only IF
the user logs in.
x2godbadmin, however, needs to be run
- on the x2goserver
- by root
- before the user logs in
-> chicken and egg.
So - to expand this bug - what we'd need is some piece of code that does
what pam_mkhomedir does (not only create the directory and set
ownership/permissions, *but also* populate it with the contents of
/etc/skel) - but for a user other than the one that's currently logged
in. Are you aware of anything that does that and that we could call?
-Stefan
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> Are you aware of anything that does that and that we could call?
I think that setup with absent homedir && non-configured pam_mkhomedir
is broken anyway and one can only fail gracefully with a good error
message.
Other variants (homedir already exists and/or pam_mkhomedir is
configured) can be covered by calling `su' or `sudo' with appropriate
options (e.g. su -c /bin/true "${user_to_add}").
This would fail if homedir (either existing or not) is located on a
network or encrypted FS (where local root can't do anything without
knowing user's password) but this is a separate issue.
I've also seen posts (e.g.[1]) about `oddjob-mkhomedir' (and I've
already seen it in Debian repos) but I wonder if this way is
production-ready. And this way seems to be more complex.
[1] https://access.redhat.com/discussions/903523
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Hi,
To add my 2 cents, I workarounded this by creating a small helper script for provisionning my accounts which does the x2godbadmin --adduser stuff + a few other things (provisionning the /etc/skel content, setting right user perms, ...)
I don't think it is mandatory to expand these features inside the script but creating good documentation about those script (and I include scripts such as x2golistsession, x2goterminatesession, ...) and good error reporting would be great because it's very hard o know what they do unless you tap directly inside the code itself (which I did at then end).
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Objet: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#1145: Bug#1145: x2godbadmin + postgres + non-existent home directory = wrong ownerships
> Are you aware of anything that does that and that we could call?
I think that setup with absent homedir && non-configured pam_mkhomedir
is broken anyway and one can only fail gracefully with a good error
message.
Other variants (homedir already exists and/or pam_mkhomedir is
configured) can be covered by calling `su' or `sudo' with appropriate
options (e.g. su -c /bin/true "${user_to_add}").
This would fail if homedir (either existing or not) is located on a
network or encrypted FS (where local root can't do anything without
knowing user's password) but this is a separate issue.
I've also seen posts (e.g.[1]) about `oddjob-mkhomedir' (and I've
already seen it in Debian repos) but I wonder if this way is
production-ready. And this way seems to be more complex.
[1] https://access.redhat.com/discussions/903523
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Am 07.02.2017 um 23:41 schrieb Stefan Baur:
> x2godbadmin, however, needs to be run
> - on the x2goserver
> - by root
> - before the user logs in
>
> -> chicken and egg.
Ha, I think I found a way to "hatch the egg"!
As root, do:
su <username> -s /bin/true # this triggers pam_mkhomedir for <username>
x2godbadmin --adduser <username>
We *might* consider adding that inside x2godbadmin, but would have to
make sure it is only used if pam_mkhomedir is in use/users are non-local
users (because it won't do the trick if it's a local user account that
doesn't have a homedirectory yet).
-Stefan
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On 2/8/17, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
> Ha, I think I found a way to "hatch the egg"!
> [...]
Did you receive my previous message? Calling `su' was exactly what
I've suggested there. There were also some additional notes there that
you may find interesting.
Here it is: http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1145#20
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