Bug 67060

Summary:	smbpwman-0.5-r2 (new package)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	chris-gentoo
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	wschlich
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	/http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/index.html#smbpwman
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	smbpwman ebuild Patch to clean passwords Fix race condition in clearing passwords Create shared library for interaction with daemon Prevent daemon from auto starting Patch to expire cache entries Retry connection to daemon Fix locking to prevent multiple daemons from running Patch to enable debugging init.d script Cron job to flush the cache Fixed smbpwman ebuild

Description chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:07:27 UTC

smbpwman is a password caching daemon (or more simply it just caches keys and values). Originally written for automatic mounting of samba shares at any time.
I've created a patched version of pam_mount that makes use of this to work around a problem when using openssh (see bug #24213). Also attached are patches that I used on smbpwman for this purpose to reduce the time it cached passwords for and to have it clean the memory containing passwords before it deallocated it.

Comment 1 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:10:38 UTC

Created attachment 41513 [details]
smbpwman ebuild

Comment 2 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:16:51 UTC

Created attachment 41514 [details, diff]
Patch to clean passwords

Patch to overwrite passwords in memory with 0's before freeing the memory

Comment 3 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:19:11 UTC

Created attachment 41515 [details, diff]
Fix race condition in clearing passwords

Patch to fix race condition by introducing reference counter.
Add some debugging ability

Comment 4 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:20:22 UTC

Created attachment 41516 [details, diff]
Create shared library for interaction with daemon

Comment 5 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:21:10 UTC

Created attachment 41517 [details, diff]
Prevent daemon from auto starting

Comment 6 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:22:18 UTC

Created attachment 41518 [details, diff]
Patch to expire cache entries

Patch to expire cache entries after 2 seconds

Comment 7 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:23:06 UTC

Created attachment 41519 [details, diff]
Retry connection to daemon

Comment 8 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:23:48 UTC

Created attachment 41520 [details, diff]
Fix locking to prevent multiple daemons from running

Comment 9 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:24:21 UTC

Created attachment 41521 [details, diff]
Patch to enable debugging

Comment 10 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:25:23 UTC

Created attachment 41522 [details]
init.d script

Comment 11 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:26:13 UTC

Created attachment 41523 [details]
Cron job to flush the cache

Comment 12 chris-gentoo 2004-10-11 02:28:37 UTC

Created attachment 41524 [details]
Fixed smbpwman ebuild

Fixed to prevent installation of cron job for vanilla builds, and fixed some
white space problems.

Comment 13 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-11 05:44:11 UTC

I would also like to have that in Portage.
Current version is 0.6.
Should we reassign it to maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org?

Comment 14 Christian Andreetta (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-01 08:56:22 UTC

Yes, I think it is better to reassign to maintainer-wanted@g.o
If anyone volunteers :-)

Comment 15 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-03 14:29:59 UTC

No way we are adding an ebuild that requires zillions of patches to work. Reopen with an updated ebuild if upstream fixed those meanwhile and is still alive.

WONTFIX meanwhile.