Bug 35413 – chmod doesnt fail when it cant modify group permissions

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Bug 35413 - chmod doesnt fail when it cant modify group permissions

Summary:	chmod doesnt fail when it cant modify group permissions

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2001-04-09 23:30 EDT by lumpy_
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-05-21 16:23:01 EDT
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Description lumpy_ 2001-04-09 23:30:51 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386)


chmod does not fail when it cant set group permissions properly.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.as root:  touch testfile; chown nonrootuser:root file
2.as nonrootuser: chmod 2777 file
3. notice how chmod does not fail, and how it returns 0, yet it failed
	

Actual Results:  every time, it works

Expected Results:  for chmod to report an error, at least in its return
code

in bsd this orks properly

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-21 14:59:56 EDT

The chmod() system call returns 0 under those conditions, so the real fix 
should be in the kernel.

FreeBSD doesn't change the permissions on the file at all when it gets the 
chmod() system call and returns EPERM, we currently change the permissions to 
0777 (stripping off setgid) and return 0.

What does POSIX say?

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-21 16:05:08 EDT

Alan: reason this is a bug ?

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-21 16:17:22 EDT

SuS says:
 APPLICATION USAGE

      In order to ensure that the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits are set, an
      application requiring this should use stat() after a successful
      chmod() to verify this.

so the chmod(1) program should do a stat(2) on a file after doing chmod(2).

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-29 18:43:47 EDT

Fixed in 4.1.9-10

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