Bug 350294 – net-nds/openldap-2.4.23 fails to start with -u (user) specified on hardened

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description sp 2011-01-01 16:14:14 UTC]

slapd will not start via the initscript or in any case using the -u flag and fails silently on hardened.  Removing the -u flag allows startup to procede as normal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-nds/openldap
2. /etc/init.d/slapd start
or:
2. start-stop-daemon --start --pidf ile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid --exec /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -- -u ldap -g ldap -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
Actual Results:  
slapd does not start and does not print or log any error messages

Expected Results:  
slapd should be running

Portage 2.1.9.25 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.36-hardened-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-hardened-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8700_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv ldap modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pic pppd python readline session ssl sysfs tcpd urandom x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa via vmware nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2012-02-12 20:53:56 UTC]

I can't reproduce this. All of Gentoo infra runs hardened and LDAP.
Please see the new slaptest changes in 2.4.28-r1. It's probably a bug in your ldap config, or the ownership on your files.

Turn up your logging level and read the logs when running slapd outside the init.d script, with the same args.

[Comment 2 spresse1 2012-02-12 20:59:10 UTC]

Bug is greater than one year old.  Likely it was accidentally fixed in the meantime.  I will be doing no further tests for this bug.