Bug 485469

Summary: Normal users cannot run CPG clients if openais is started by cman.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Alan Conway <aconway>
Component: cmanAssignee: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.3CC: cfeist, cluster-maint, cward, edamato, rlerch, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: cman-2.0.100-1.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: cman set the objdb keys "user" and "group" to the value "root" so that only root could access openais services. Consequence: Any user other than root that tried to run service that connected to openais would be rejected as a privilege violation. Fix: The values of "user" and "group" were set to be "ais" Result: Users that are a member of the "ais" group can now run openais service programs
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Bug Blocks: 504531    

Description Alan Conway 2009-02-13 17:23:25 UTC
Description of problem:

Run cman, run a CPG client as a non-root user with gid=ais: cpg_init
returns error 2 - library. Running the CPG client as root works. 

If openais is started without cman, then running CPG client as non-root user
with gid=ais works correctly.

This bug is almost identical to 485462, but cpg_init returns a different error code.

Comment 1 Christine Caulfield 2009-02-18 11:19:40 UTC
The fix is trivial, and in Fedora 10. If you really need this in RHEL-5 we'll need some ACKs.

Comment 3 Christine Caulfield 2009-03-27 15:25:03 UTC
Committed for RHEL5.4

commit 49e8d4b32390184b1794b90b11865d8d60ee352d
Author: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie>
Date:   Fri Mar 27 15:23:30 2009 +0000

    cman: Allow connections from unprivileged user/group "ais"

Comment 6 Christine Caulfield 2009-05-19 07:12:43 UTC
Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
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New Contents:
Cause:  cman set the objdb keys "user" and "group" to the value "root" so that only root could access openais services.

Consequence:  Any user other than root that tried to run service that connected to openais would be rejected as a privilege violation.

Fix:   The values of "user" and "group" were set to be "ais"

Result:  Users that are a member of the "ais" group can now run openais service programs

Comment 8 Chris Ward 2009-07-03 18:24:56 UTC
~~ Attention - RHEL 5.4 Beta Released! ~~

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Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:06:25 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1341.html