Bug 860184

Summary: service autofs status should be accessible to non privileged users (e.g. for monitoring)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Sage Grigull <mgrigull>
Component: autofsAssignee: Ian Kent <ikent>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: yanfu,wang <yanwang>
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Version: 6.2CC: ikent, rmainz, yanwang
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Fixed In Version: autofs-5.0.5-62.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 10:53:41 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Sage Grigull 2012-09-25 08:20:30 UTC
Description of problem:
init script does not allow non-root user to check status

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.0.5-54.el6

How reproducible:
easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. su to another user and check status via initscript
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
#  sudo -u apache service autofs status
insufficient privilege to change service status

Expected results:
#  sudo -u apache service autofs status
automount (pid  9155) is running...

Additional info:
For setting up system monitoring via initscripts status it is desirable to be able to run these as non-root user.  The current way to mitigate this is to lend the monitoring user sudo access to the desired initscrips.



# diff -u  /etc/init.d/autofs /tmp/autofs
--- /etc/init.d/autofs	2012-04-09 20:09:28.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/autofs	2012-09-25 04:02:25.445150671 -0400
@@ -157,6 +157,21 @@
 
 RETVAL=0
 
+# allow non-root users to read status / usage
+
+case "$1" in
+	status)
+                status -p /var/run/autofs.pid -l autofs $prog
+		exit 0;
+                ;;
+        usage)
+                usage_message
+                exit 0;
+                ;;
+esac
+
+
+
 # Only the root user may change the service status
 if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "insufficient privilege to change service status"
@@ -174,9 +189,6 @@
 	stop)
 		stop
 		;;
-	status)
-		status -p /var/run/autofs.pid -l autofs $prog
-		;;
 	restart|force-reload)
 		restart
 		;;
@@ -192,10 +204,6 @@
 			restart
 		fi
 		;;
-	usage)
-		usage_message
-		exit 0;
-		;;
 	*)
 		usage_message
 		exit 2

Comment 3 yanfu,wang 2013-01-05 06:59:03 UTC
Reproduced on 6.2 package:
[root@ibm-dx360m4-01 ~]# su test -c 'service autofs status'
insufficient privilege to change service status

Verified on autofs-5.0.5-70.el6:
[root@ibm-x3550m3-05 ~]# su test -c 'service autofs status'
automount (pid  9015) is running...

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:53:41 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0462.html