Bug 103463 – GNAP: Users other than root fail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-23 08:17:48 UTC]

Trying to execute things with different users than the "root" user will probably
fail on current GNAP systems.

The problem comes from the rights of the / directory in the booted system :
drwx------   root root

Other users can't really explore the filesystem from there.

Dirty workaround for people making their own GNAP cores:
Add a "chmod a+rx /" somewhere in specs/root_overlay/etc/init.d/overlay

[Comment 1 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-24 03:17:17 UTC]

This comes from the temporary directories created by gnap_overlay (and probably
gnap_remaster too) having restrictive permissions that sets the / of the
overlay.tar.gz and extensions tarfiles to rwx------. When untarred on the live
filesystem (at boot time for overlay and probably at remaster time for
extensions) the root permissions are overwritten.

[Comment 2 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 02:37:02 UTC]

This will need a revamping of how temporary resources are handled in GNAP. Make
a single temporary directory in which other directories will be created, and
clean only one at the end. Also no need to put more than 6 X's in mktemp :)

[Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-29 02:57:17 UTC]

Fix in CVS.

[Comment 4 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-31 05:05:26 UTC]

Fixed in 1.8.1 release