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Bug 2116280

Summary: pull-provider jobs working directory different than with ssh jobs
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Peter Ondrejka <pondrejk>
Component: Remote ExecutionAssignee: Adam Ruzicka <aruzicka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Peter Ondrejka <pondrejk>
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Version: 6.12.0CC: ahumbe, aruzicka, pcreech
Target Milestone: 6.12.0Keywords: Triaged
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Description Peter Ondrejka 2022-08-08 07:18:26 UTC
Description of problem:

When executing rex jobs as a root user, pull provider jobs by default execute in /, while ssh and ansible jobs use /root. This could bring surprises when porting  scripts between providers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellie 6.12 sn 5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run remote execution command pwd on remote host using pull provider and using ssh


Actual results:
ssh: /root
pp: /

Expected results:
consistency

Comment 1 Brad Buckingham 2022-08-08 13:11:12 UTC
Hi Adam,

Is there a reason for the difference in directory?

Comment 2 Adam Ruzicka 2022-08-08 13:26:31 UTC
No, not really. We didn't really pick either of those directories, for ssh it is just a side effect of how sshd processes incoming connections. In pull provider we don't configure the working directory at all so it just runs in whatever context systemd spawns it.

Comment 3 Adam Ruzicka 2022-08-08 14:55:32 UTC
Correction to comment #2, yggdrasil actively reduces the environment for workers to only contain PATH and YGG_SOCKET_ADDR. We can still parse /etc/passwd to get the current user's working directory in the worker but that's more cumbersome than it should be.

Comment 4 Peter Ondrejka 2022-10-03 11:52:40 UTC
Verified on Satellite 6.12 snap 13, the default working directory for root is now consistent across rex providers

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-16 13:44:48 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 (Satellite 6 Satellite Client Release), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8507