rpc.statd is running as root after installing net-fs/nfs-utils: It does not drop root privileges and outputs a warning message to syslog: rpc.statd: Running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs to choose different user My expected result after installation would be that /var/lib/nfs and corresponding files are chowned by a specific, non-privileged user. This is the default behavior on Debian (cf. <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574510>) and Fedora (cf. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495066>). Manually changing ownerships after installation works around this problem: > useradd -r -c "added for nfs-utils" -d /var/lib/nfs -s /sbin/nologin statd > chown statd:statd /var/lib/nfs /var/lib/nfs/sm /var/lib/nfs/sm.bak /var/lib/nfs/state emerge --info: Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.18.7-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.18.7-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8141604 total, 253420 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777044 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r4 dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.11 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 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nfs-utils has never dropped perms afaik on Gentoo
Created attachment 477634 [details, diff] nfs-utils-statd-user-ebuild.diff This security issue still needs to fixed to run rpc.statd unprivileged. Attached is diff to nfs-utils ebuild to resolve. Permissions for sm and sm.bak are also set to 700 as recommended by Linux NFS FAQ. Beyond the diff there are a couple of possible further options; - Could use the configure option "--with-statduser". However it's only used by the chown in Makefile.am install doing the same as ebuild chown but it doesn't chown /var/lib/nfs which is the default statdpath that rpc.statd uses to set its euid, so not worth it. - Optionally, like Redhat you could change statdpath to /var/lib/nfs/statd with configure option "--withstatdpath" to avoid chowning /var/lib/nfs itself. Not worth changing now though.
The ebuild should also inherit user for enewuser and enwegroup but was missing in the diff.
Same problem here. Alan Swanson's fix works for me.
