Bug 796960 - init script for nslcd does not include ability to use a /etc/sysconfig/* file
Summary: init script for nslcd does not include ability to use a /etc/sysconfig/* file
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nss-pam-ldapd
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-23 22:52 UTC by Shawn Michael
Modified: 2012-08-20 14:59 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2012-08-20 14:59:59 UTC
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Description Shawn Michael 2012-02-23 22:52:18 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-14.el6.x86_64

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install nss-pam-ldapd
2. examine /etc/init.d/nslcd for a reference to including /etc/sysconfig/nslcd
3.
  
Actual results:

There is no references to include /etc/sysconfig/nslcd in the /etc/init.d/nslcd init script.  


Expected results:

ALL init scritps should check for /etc/sysconfig/SCRIPT_NAME for additional options.

Additional info:

libnss3 by default does not pay attention to wildcard SSL certificates.  In order to validate wildcard SSL certs with libnss3 you must be able to set the enviornment variable NSS_USE_SHEXP_IN_CERT_NAME.  The appropriate place to set that variable with respec to nslcd would be in /etc/sysconfig/nslcd.  However that file doesn't exist, and even if it did it wouldn't be included by the /etc/init.d/nslcd init script.

The following line should be just after the ". /etc/init.d/functions" line:

[ -r /etc/sysconfig/nslcd ] && . /etc/sysconfig/nslcd

Comment 4 Arthur de Jong 2012-07-18 19:48:55 UTC
Setting environment variables in the init script will not do much good because nslcd clears the environment on start-up. This is intentional because the OpenLDAP library reacts differently depending on which environment variables are set.

Comment 5 Jakub Hrozek 2012-07-19 10:20:33 UTC
Shawn, with what Arthur said in comment #2, have you had a chance to test if sourcing the environment variable fixes the problem for you?

Comment 8 Jakub Hrozek 2012-08-20 14:59:59 UTC
The required information has not been provided in over a month. Closing as insufficient data.


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