Bug 1911572 - StrongSwan not configured with libcap support
Summary: StrongSwan not configured with libcap support
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: strongswan
Version: 33
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pavel Šimerda
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-30 05:39 UTC by Demi Marie Obenour
Modified: 2021-03-29 14:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: strongswan-5.9.1-1.fc35
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Last Closed: 2021-03-29 14:30:32 UTC
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Description Demi Marie Obenour 2020-12-30 05:39:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
StrongSwan cannot drop its privileges after startup.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
strongswan-5.9.0-2.fc33.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup an unpriviled user for StrongSwan to drop privileges to.
2. Configure StrongSwan to drop its privileges
3. Start the VPN

Actual results:
StrongSwan is not built with libcap support, so StrongSwan is not able to do its job after it has dropped privileges.

Expected results:
StrongSwan is built with libcap support, so even after dropping privileges, it still retains enough capabilities to function.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Davide Cavalca 2021-02-11 22:46:46 UTC 
Put up https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/strongswan/pull-request/11 to fix this
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2021-02-12 19:23:06 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-394a40648b has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Demi Marie Obenour 2021-03-27 07:01:18 UTC 
This still needs to be backported to Fedora 33 and 34.
Comment 4 Davide Cavalca 2021-03-27 16:11:58 UTC 
strongswan-5.9.1-1.fc33 and strongswan-5.9.1-1.fc34 should both include this already.
Comment 5 Demi Marie Obenour 2021-03-29 14:30:32 UTC 
(In reply to Davide Cavalca from comment #4)
> strongswan-5.9.1-1.fc33 and strongswan-5.9.1-1.fc34 should both include this
> already.

Good catch, thanks!
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