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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:15:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/62617: qpage port runs as wrong user by default
Message-ID:  <20040210061520.0A6A134DA1@bit0.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <200402100620.i1A6KALG085252@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         62617
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       qpage port runs as wrong user by default
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 09 22:20:10 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Andrews
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mindcrime.bit0.com 5.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 #1: Sat Feb 7 14:28:53 EST 2004 mandrews@mindcrime.bit0.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


	qpage 3.3 port, FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 or 5.2-RELEASE-p2

>Description:

	qpage has a compiled-in userid to switch to when it drops root privs.
	Out of the box, this is 'daemon', which doesn't have privs to open any
	/dev/cuaa* devices, which makes it hard to send pages via modem.

	qpage can also act as an SNPP client without talking directly to a
	modem, though, in which case 'daemon' is fine.  Still, there's no
	compile-time knob to change this easily, which makes 'portupgrade'
	a bit of a pain. :)

>How-To-Repeat:

	1) cd /usr/ports/comms/qpage; make install
	2) set up /usr/local/etc/qpage.cf to use a modem, for example:

modem=modem device=/dev/cuaa1
service=foobarpagerco
	device=modem
	baudrate=1200
	parity=even
	allowpid=yes
	maxtries=6
	phone=5551212
	maxmsgsize=230
	maxpages=5
pager=pagerone
	pagerid=5552121
	service=foobarpagerco

	3) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qpage.sh start
	Opening the modem device will fail and the daemon won't start.

>Fix:

	Since some people probably use this as only an SNPP client instead
	of talking to a modem directly, in which case 'daemon' is OK...
	maybe a QPAGE_USER knob that could be set in /etc/make.conf?

	Otherwise, extend /usr/ports/comms/qpage/files/patch-config.h.in to
	change 'daemon' to 'uucp' on line 26 of the original file.

--- patch-config.h.in	Sat Jan 10 03:48:29 2004
+++ /tmp/qpage-patch-patch	Tue Feb 10 01:09:56 2004
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---- config.h.in.orig	Sat Jan 10 00:42:55 2004
-+++ config.h.in	Sat Jan 10 00:43:14 2004
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
+--- config.h.in.orig	Sun Jul 26 15:38:35 1998
++++ config.h.in	Tue Feb 10 01:07:25 2004
+@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
  #undef SNPP_SERVER_FILE
  
  /* Define as the location of the qpage configuration file.  */
@@ -9,3 +9,10 @@
  
  /* Define as the location of the lock directory.  */
  #undef DEFAULT_LOCKDIR
+ 
+ /* Define as the user the qpage daemon runs as.  */
+-#define DAEMON_USER "daemon"
++#define DAEMON_USER "uucp"
+ 
+ /* Define as the syslog facility used to log messages (i.e. LOG_DAEMON).  */
+ #define SYSLOG_FACILITY LOG_DAEMON

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