Bug 1295349 - "ruserok(3)": Man page need to be updated.
Summary: "ruserok(3)": Man page need to be updated.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: man-pages-overrides
Version: 6.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Nikola Forró
QA Contact: Iveta Wiedermann
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Blocks: 1300199
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-04 08:57 UTC by Mukesh Thapa
Modified: 2019-10-10 10:48 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: man-pages-overrides-6.8.2-1.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: existing hardlink to /etc/hosts.equiv or ~/.rhosts file causes iruserok and ruserok functions to fail, but this behavior is not documented in man page Consequence: documentation is incomplete Fix: man page has been updated to provide missing info Result: mentioned behavior is now properly documented
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Last Closed: 2016-05-11 00:58:10 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0940 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE man-pages-overrides bug fix update 2016-05-10 22:55:09 UTC

Description Mukesh Thapa 2016-01-04 08:57:41 UTC 
Description of problem:


"ruserok(3)": "man-pages" package need to update to fill out the sentence:

~~~
    If  this file does not exist, is not a regular file, is owned by
    anyone other than the user or the superuser, or is writable  by
    anyone  other than the owner, the check automatically fails.
~~~

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


How reproducible:

Above statement is missing from man page of "ruserok(3)"
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2016-01-04 09:07:06 UTC 
As the description says, this change has to be applied to the man-pages package.
Comment 3 Nikola Forró 2016-01-04 16:33:25 UTC 
(In reply to Mukesh Thapa from comment #0)
> Above statement is missing from man page of "ruserok(3)"
Actually the statement is not missing, but it's incomplete. The ruserok() function fails also if the .rhosts file is hardlinked anywhere.
Comment 4 Nikola Forró 2016-01-18 08:24:04 UTC 
Patch was sent and accepted upstream:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg09868.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-11 00:58:10 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-2016-0940.html
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