Bug 677665
| Summary: | pinentry-ncurses fails if current tty is owned by different user as the one running pinentry | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert> | ||||
| Component: | pinentry | Assignee: | Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | pkovar, rvokal | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Prior to this update, there was a problem when entering a password using the pinentry-curses utility; an error message was displayed instead of the password entry dialog if pinentry-curses was run under a user different from the user who owned the current tty. This bug has been fixed in this update so that no error message is now displayed and pinentry-curses asks for a password as expected.
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| : | 677670 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-07-27 08:14:26 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 677670 | ||||||
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Description
Miroslav Vadkerti
2011-02-15 14:23:25 UTC
More simple reproducer is this: 1. login as normal user 2. unset DISPLAY # to use curses 3. su - 4. gpg2 --symmetric .bashrc Created attachment 478883 [details]
Patch fixing the bug
This is patch that was sent upstream. Will be back after I hear back from them
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. Additional information from upstream: capabilities are not supported for a long time, they were surprised it worked and that it was enabled by default in their configuration. They will be turning it off for next release. Testing on Fedoras suggests no problems when package was configured with --without-libcap.
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Prior to this update, there was a problem when entering a password using the pinentry-curses utility; an error message was displayed instead of the password entry dialog if pinentry-curses was run under a user different from the user who owned the current tty. This bug has been fixed in this update so that no error message is now displayed and pinentry-curses asks for a password as expected.
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/RHBA-2011-1096.html |