Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 499816
bad handle umask in pam_mkhomedir
Last modified: 2009-12-27 15:33:50 EST
Description of problem: Due to typing error in pam_mkhomedir.c is umask copied over skeldir, see: --- pam_mkhomedir.c.old 2009-03-03 14:56:01.000000000 +0100 +++ pam_mkhomedir.c 2009-05-08 13:40:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ } else if (!strcmp(*argv, "debug")) { ctrl |= MKHOMEDIR_DEBUG; } else if (!strncmp(*argv,"umask=",6)) { - strncpy(SkelDir,*argv+6,sizeof(UMask)); + strncpy(UMask,*argv+6,sizeof(UMask)); UMask[sizeof(UMask)-1] = '\0'; } else if (!strncmp(*argv,"skel=",5)) { strncpy(SkelDir,*argv+5,sizeof(SkelDir)); Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-1.0.91-6.fc11 from 10-Apr-2009 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This is fixed in rawhide pam-1.1.0.
pam-1.0.91-8.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pam-1.0.91-8.fc11
pam-1.0.91-8.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pam'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10922
pam-1.0.91-8.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
I'm still experiencing this error with pam-1.0.91-8.fc11.x86_64. [root@home ~]# rpm -q pam pam-1.0.91-8.fc11.x86_64 [root@home ~]# tail /var/log/secure | grep mkhomedir_helper Dec 7 16:39:53 home mkhomedir_helper: PAM unable to read directory 0077: No such file or directory [root@home ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/sshd | grep pam_mkhomedir.so session [default=ignore] pam_mkhomedir.so umask=0077
I'm sorry the patch was not properly applied.
pam-1.0.91-9.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pam-1.0.91-9.fc11
pam-1.0.91-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pam'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-13037
pam-1.0.91-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.