Bug 1395673

Summary: ntpd is not verbose for non-root user
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Irina Gulina <igulina>
Component: ntpAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Description Irina Gulina 2016-11-16 12:16:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
if run 'service ntpd start|stop|restart|try-restart|reload|force-reload' as non-root user, no helpful message is shown. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6.8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. as non-root user run 

service ntpd start|stop|restart|try-restart|reload|force-reload

Actual results: silence

>> service ntpd status
ntpd (pid  2635) is running...
>> service ntpd restart
>> service ntpd stop
>> service ntpd status
ntpd (pid  2635) is running..
>> service ntpd stop
>> echo $?
4


Expected results: verbosity, "permission denied" error: 
>> service ip6tables stop
ip6tables: Only usable by root.                          [WARNING]

>> service sshd stop
/etc/init.d/sshd: line 33: /etc/sysconfig/sshd: Permission denied
Stopping sshd:                                           [rm: cannot remove `/var/run/sshd.pid': Permission denied



Additional info:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd
start() {
        [ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4

...
stop() {
        [ "$EUID" != "0" ] && exit 4

"In case of an error while processing any init-script action except for status, the init script shall print an error message ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2017-06-23 08:40:38 UTC 
I agree It would be nice to fix the init script to print an error message. However, RHEL 6 is already in the Production 3 Phase and this probably doesn't qualify as a critical issue. FWIW, in RHEL 7 systemd has replaced init scripts.