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Bug 652047 - Unhelpful message from ipa-getcert
Summary: Unhelpful message from ipa-getcert
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: certmonger
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Jenny Severance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 681641 683926
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-10 21:36 UTC by Dmitri Pal
Modified: 2011-05-19 13:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: certmonger-0.34-1.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the certmonger utility did not display a user-friendly error message when the user ran the ipa-getcert command with privileges that were insufficient for the system bus to allow it to communicate with the certmonger service. With this update, certmonger suppresses the original error message if a user-friendly message is available. The user can display both messages with the -v option.
Clone Of:
: 681641 683926 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:07:15 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0570 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE certmonger bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-19 09:37:40 UTC

Description Dmitri Pal 2010-11-10 21:36:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
The certmonger displays an unhelpful message when ip-getcert is called by non root.


* Install certmonger
* Reboot the system 
* As non root run ipa-getcert
  
Actual results:
 Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.76" (uid=500 pid=3468 comm="ipa-getcert) interface="org.fedorahosted.certmonger" member="get_requests" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.fedorahosted.certmonger" (uid=0 pid=2560 comm="/usr/sbin/certmonger))

Expected results:
Meaningful error message. Something like:
"Insufficient access right. Please try operation as root."
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2011-01-11 23:46:08 UTC 
Fixed in upstream repository, targeting 0.34 release.
Comment 3 Kaleem 2011-03-09 09:46:41 UTC 
I tried to verify this with certmonger-0.34-1.el6 on RHEL6.1 Beta.
I observed that meaningful error message is displayed now but along with the debug message as well which was displayed before the fix.

Now the message is:
 "Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.125" (uid=501 pid=24332 comm="ipa-getcert) interface="org.fedorahosted.certmonger" member="get_requests" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.fedorahosted.certmonger" (uid=0 pid=13964 comm="/usr/sbin/certmonger))".
 "Insufficient access.  Please retry operation as root."
Comment 11 Eva Kopalova 2011-05-02 17:02:40 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the certmonger utility did not display a user-friendly error message when the user ran the ipa-getcert command with privileges that were insufficient for the system bus to allow it to communicate with the certmonger service. With this update, certmonger suppresses the original error message if a user-friendly message is available. The user can display both messages with the -v option.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:07:15 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0570.html
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