Bug 200104 – sys-auth/libnss-pgsql - get rid of "Could not connect to database" as normal user

• Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thorsten Meinl 2007-11-23 19:09:32 UTC]

Current behaviour:
Using some command, e.g. screen, on a system using libnss-pgsql as normal user gives me "Could not connect to database". Tracking down this message I found it comes from trying to access the shadow database which is of course not possible as a normal user cannot read /etc/nss-pgsql-root.conf and thus cannot connect to the database. The error message is a bit annoying as it is actually not error at all.

Expected behaviour:
Do not print a warning if a normal user tries to access the shadow database

Suggested patch:
See attachment: just check if the reason why opening the config file failed is EACCES and immediately return.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make use of libnss-pgsql for both passwd and shadow
2. issue screen as normal user

[Comment 1 Thorsten Meinl 2007-11-23 19:11:10 UTC]

Created attachment 136791 [details, diff]
Patch to solve the describe issue

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-03-10 15:01:01 UTC]

Can you please report this upstream, if it's still a problem with 1.5.0?

[Comment 3 Thorsten Meinl 2010-03-11 21:02:50 UTC]

I haven't tried it out yet (production system) but judging from the CVS diff this problem was address in released 1.5.0 beta.