Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:50:30 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/125932: pkg_add(1) doesn't prompt for root credentials and then fails badly Message-ID: <CFAEC9DF-5D47-472D-846F-D802F9C2AA5B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200807241820.m6OIK7Gi065475@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200807241820.m6OIK7Gi065475@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/125932; it has been noted by > GNATS. > > From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> > To: "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk> > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: bin/125932: pkg_add(1) doesn't prompt for root > credentials and then fails badly > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:18:31 -0700 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Number: 125932 >>> Category: bin >>> Synopsis: pkg_add(1) doesn't prompt for root credentials and >>> then fails badly >>> Confidential: no >>> Severity: non-critical >>> Priority: low >>> Responsible: freebsd-bugs >>> State: open >>> Quarter: >>> Keywords: >>> Date-Required: >>> Class: sw-bug >>> Submitter-Id: current-users >>> Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 24 13:50:06 UTC 2008 >>> Closed-Date: >>> Last-Modified: >>> Originator: Bruce Cran >>> Release: 7.0 >>> Organization: >>> Environment: >> FreeBSD bsdbox01 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 >> 16:53:28 GMT 2008 bruccran@bsdbox01:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ >> MYKERNEL i386 >>> Description: >> Running pkg_add as a normal user fails. It should check if it's >> being run under root credentials and if not either abort or prompt >> for the root password. The following errors are currently displayed: >> >>> pkg_add -r gkrellm >> Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/gkrellm.tbz >> ... Done. >> man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz: Can't create 'man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz': >> Permission denied >> include/gkrellm2/gkrellmd.h: Failed to create dir 'include/ >> gkrellm2': No such file or directoryCan't create 'include/gkrellm2/ >> gkrellmd.h': No such file or directory >> libdata/pkgconfig/gkrellmd.pc: Can't create 'libdata/pkgconfig/ >> gkrellmd.pc': Permission denied >> sbin/gkrellmd: Can't create 'sbin/gkrellmd': Permission denied >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >> pkg_add: extract_plist: can not invoke 156 byte tar pipeline: /usr/ >> bin/tar cf - man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz include/gkrellm2/gkrellmd.h >> libdata/pkgconfig/gkrellmd.pc sbin/gkrellmd|/usr/bin/tar --unlink - >> xpPf - -C /usr/local >> >>> How-To-Repeat: >> Run pkg_add -r as a non-root user. >>> Fix: > > The issue isn't the fact that you're running as non-root; it's that > someone's not checking to see whether or not a fetch init succeeded > (filehandle's open, writing's being done) before continuing. > > I'll fix this later on tonight when I get back from San Jose. > > Cheers, > -Garrett For what it's worth, it appears that the SVN head version of pkg_add isn't afflicted by the same issue as the RELENG_7 copy. My hunch is that the above errors that you're seeing are due to a call to tar, so until libarchive is integrated into pkg_install, those errors will persist. -Garrett
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