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Bug 629914 - Bacula daemons do not drop privileges
Summary: Bacula daemons do not drop privileges
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 651786
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bacula
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Görig
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 629697
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-03 09:22 UTC by Jan Görig
Modified: 2010-11-11 13:36 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 629697
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-11 13:36:57 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Jan Görig 2010-09-03 09:22:53 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #629697 +++

Description of problem:
usually the bacula services (especially the director and the storage daemon) are not run as root. In the SPECfile's configure user and group are set to bacula (which is good). However, this only affects the upstream init scripts that aren'nt used in Fedora.
The Fedora scripts provide no way to make bacula-dir and bacula-sd drop privileges.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bacula-5.0.1-1.fc13.src.rpm
bacula-5.0.2-5.fc13.src.rpm

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a storage daemon or director
2. start
3. ps auxwww | grep bacula
  
Actual results:
bacula-dir and bacula-sd run as root

Expected results:
bacula-dir and bacula-sd should run as bacula

Additional info:
The fedora init scripts don't work as expected for bacula as they practically ignore /etc/sysconfig/bacula.
Please have a look at the upstream supplied initscripts that read /etc/sysconfig/bacula and support configuration of uid and gid through DIR_USER, DIR_GROUP, SD_USER, SD_GROUP, FD_USER and FD_GROUP and try to make yours at least a bit compatible to that.
It would probably also make sense to change the default group for bacula-sd from "bacula" to "disk" so writing to tapes works out of the box.
(writing to tapes currently works out of the box, because the SD does not drop privileges).

--- Additional comment from a.rogge on 2010-09-02 20:24:54 CEST ---

I just confirmed that this issue is also present in the RHEL 6 Beta as bacula-3.0.2-8.el6.src.rpm uses the same initscripts
Comment 1 Jan Görig 2010-11-11 13:36:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651786 ***
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