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Bug 1182317 - Wrong permission of /var/account/pacct in psacct package
Summary: Wrong permission of /var/account/pacct in psacct package
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: psacct
Version: 6.6
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jan Rybar
QA Contact: Branislav Náter
Lenka Kimlickova
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1002711 1182318 1182319 1249665 1269194 1356056 1359260
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Reported: 2015-01-14 20:31 UTC by Paulo Andrade
Modified: 2019-12-16 04:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: psacct-6.3.2-67.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
RPM verification no longer reports failures in the `/var/account/pacct` file Previously, the RPM verification and compliance check reported failures, because the mode of the `/var/account/pacct` file was not set after installation. To fix this bug, the mode of `/var/account/pacct` is changed immediately after installation to 0600. As a result, the RPM verification check no longer reports failures in the `/var/account/pacct`, and the file is now accessible only by root.
Clone Of:
: 1249665 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-03-21 11:40:36 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:0770 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE psacct bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:48:00 UTC

Description Paulo Andrade 2015-01-14 20:31:33 UTC 
RPM psacct specifies the file /var/account/pacct as a ghost file with permissions 640, but after installation the file has permission 644, causing rpm verficiation and subsequent compliance check failures.

A simple psacct.spec pseudo patch would be:

-%attr(0600,root,root)   %ghost %config %{accounting_logdir}/pacct
+%attr(0644,root,root)   %ghost %config %{accounting_logdir}/pacct
Comment 2 Jaromír Cápík 2015-01-29 18:58:52 UTC 
Hello Paulo.

I just tested that on RHEL5 and RHEL6 and the file permissions are 0600 in both cases (and that's correct). I probably don't understand what you're trying to say/achieve. Could you please be more verbose?

Thanks,
Jaromir.
Comment 3 Jaromír Cápík 2015-01-29 19:03:38 UTC 
Well ... few days ago I had a report about 'atop' conflicting with psacct/logrotate. Could you please check, whether you have 'atop' installed.
Comment 4 Paulo Andrade 2015-01-29 19:52:22 UTC 
Hi Jaromír,

This bug report is a kind of a sibling of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182304

I personally do not have an "atop" package, but I see,
on rhel-7:

$ LC_ALL=C ls /var/account/pacct -la
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Dec  9 10:37 /var/account/pacct
Comment 5 Jaromír Cápík 2015-08-03 13:13:21 UTC 
Hi Paulo.

Does it mean the bug was reported against wrong RHEL version?

Thx, J.
Comment 6 Jaromír Cápík 2015-08-03 13:17:26 UTC 
I just checked RHEL7 and the permissions are 0600 there too. Could you please attach your /etc/logrotate.d/psacct file?
Comment 7 Jaromír Cápík 2015-08-03 13:19:04 UTC 
The thing is, that the logrotate file is marked as %config(noreplace) and for some reason you might have an old/wrong version of that file and it doesn't get replaced with the latest one.
Comment 8 Jaromír Cápík 2015-08-03 14:10:38 UTC 
Summary
========
The file permissions in the CPIO archive are really 644 since the ghost entries do not fix file permissions. Therefore the following spec lines need to be equipped with a permission modification:

  mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/account
  touch %{buildroot}/var/account/pacct
Comment 9 Jaromír Cápík 2015-08-03 14:13:47 UTC 
diff --git a/psacct.spec b/psacct.spec
index 49fef5c..2543d0d 100644
--- a/psacct.spec
+++ b/psacct.spec
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ cp dump-acct.8 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8/
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_infodir}/dir
 
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/account
-touch %{buildroot}/var/account/pacct
+touch %{buildroot}/var/account/pacct && chmod 0600 %{buildroot}/var/account/pacct
 
 # create logrotate config file
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/logrotate.d
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 11:40:36 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.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0770.html
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