Re: Re: cf-agent floods logs with execv errors

Xander Cage <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
knock, knock...

On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 4:31:16 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

>
> Xander,
>
> I don't know why your messages are constantly held for moderation. I 
> permanently approved them, but for whatever reason they show up as 
> "deleted". Can you try to respond again?
> On Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:25:56 AM UTC-5 Nick Anderson wrote:
>
>> I think this will do it:
>>
>> ```
>> modified   lib/vcs.cf
>> @@ -290,14 +290,10 @@ bundle agent git(repo_path, subcmd, args)
>>        comment => "So that we don't mess up permissions, we will just 
>> execute
>>                      all commands as the current group of .git";
>>  
>> -      # We get the passwd entry from the user that owns the repo so
>> -      # that we can extract the home directory for later use.
>> -      "repo_uid_passwd_ent"
>> -        string => execresult("$(paths.getent) passwd $(repo_uid)", 
>> noshell),
>> -        comment => "We need to extract the home directory of the repo
>> -                    owner so that it can be used to avoid errors from
>> -                    unprivledged execution trying to access the root
>> -                    users git config.";
>> +      # Data container with user info
>> +      # {"description":"Luke 
>> Skywalker","gid":1000,"home_dir":"/home/luke","shell":"/bin/bash","uid":1000,"username":"luke"}
>> +      "repo_userinfo"
>> +        data => getuserinfo( "$(repo_uid)" );
>>  
>>    classes:
>>        "am_root" expression => strcmp($(this.promiser_uid), "0");
>> @@ -311,24 +307,14 @@ bundle agent git(repo_path, subcmd, args)
>>          not => strcmp($(this.promiser_uid), $(repo_uid)),
>>          if => isvariable( repo_uid );
>>  
>> -    am_root.need_to_drop::
>> -      # This regular expression could be tightened up
>> -      # Extract the home directory from the owner of the repository
>> -      # into $(repo_uid_passwd[1])
>> -      "extracted_repo_uid_home"
>> -        expression => regextract( ".*:.*:\d+:\d+:.*:(.*):.*",
>> -                                  $(repo_uid_passwd_ent),
>> -                                  "repo_uid_passwd" ),
>> -        if => isvariable("repo_uid_passwd_ent");
>> -
>> -  commands:
>> + commands:
>>      am_root.need_to_drop::
>>        # Because cfengine does not inherit the shell environment when
>>        # executing commands, git will look for the root users git
>>        # config and error when the executing user does not have
>>        # access. So we need to set the home directory of the executing
>>        # user.
>> -      "$(paths.env) HOME=$(repo_uid_passwd[1]) $(oneliner)"
>> +      "$(paths.env) HOME=$(repo_userinfo[home_dir]) $(oneliner)"
>>          args => "$(subcmd) $(args)",
>>          classes => kept_successful_command,
>>          contain => setuidgid_dir( $(repo_uid), $(repo_gid), $(repo_path) 
>> );
>> @@ -341,8 +327,8 @@ bundle agent git(repo_path, subcmd, args)
>>  
>>    reports:
>>      "DEBUG|DEBUG_$(this.bundle).am_root.need_to_drop"::
>> -      "DEBUG $(this.bundle): with dropped privileges to uid 
>> '$(repo_uid)' and gid '$(repo_gid)', in directory '$(repo_path)', running 
>> Git command '$(paths.env) HOME=\"$(repo_uid_passwd[1])\" $(oneliner) 
>> $(subcmd) $(args)'"
>> -        if => isvariable("repo_uid_passwd[1]");
>> +      "DEBUG $(this.bundle): with dropped privileges to uid 
>> '$(repo_uid)' and gid '$(repo_gid)', in directory '$(repo_path)', running 
>> Git command '$(paths.env) HOME=\"$(repo_userinfo[home_dir])\" $(oneliner) 
>> $(subcmd) $(args)'"
>> +        if => isvariable("repo_userinfo[home_dir]");
>> ```
>>
>> Care to test that out and open a pull request?
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:03 AM Nick Anderson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you plan to open a pull request to refactor it to use getuserinfo()?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM Xander Cage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> getuserinfo function works in aix...
>>>>
>>>> root@aixtest01: /root/cfe_testbed # /var/cfengine/bin/cf-agent -KI -f ./
>>>> getuserinfo.cf
>>>> R: I am '', root shell is '/usr/bin/ksh', and the agent was started by 
>>>> {"description":"","gid":0,"home_dir":"/root","shell":"/usr/bin/ksh","uid":0,"username":"root"}
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7:06:17 PM UTC+2 [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the report Xander.
>>>>>
>>>>> It does look like that bit of policy could use some refactoring to 
>>>>> work on systems without getent.
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably we could use the `getuserinfo()` policy function instead 
>>>>> which includes the home_dir entry.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.21/reference-functions-getuserinfo.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Let us know if you want to work on the fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a ticket:
>>>>> https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/CFE-4375
>>>>>
>>>>> -Craig
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 6:31 AM Xander Cage <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> a quick grep in the masterfiles showed two instances of a getent 
>>>>>> call...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> root@nimvie: /var/cfengine/masterfiles # grep -r getent *
>>>>>> lib/paths.cf:      "path[getent]"        string => "/usr/bin/getent";
>>>>>> lib/vcs.cf:        string => execresult("$(paths.getent) passwd 
>>>>>> $(repo_uid)", noshell),
>>>>>>
>>>>>> vcs.cf seemst to be the culprit...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 12:12:48 PM UTC+2 Xander Cage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i was just informed the getent is not a linux specific thing but is 
>>>>>>> part of posix . anyway, its not in aix so still a fix is necessary.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 11:26:08 AM UTC+2 Xander Cage wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> cf-agent complains about /usr/bin/getent not found. as this is an 
>>>>>>>> aix environment this
>>>>>>>> makes no sense. getent is a linux thing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 09:36:35 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[10617102]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 09:41:25 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[2556430]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 09:46:15 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[36569520]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 09:51:06 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[18416128]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 09:55:56 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[54067624]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:01:47 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[459462]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:06:37 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[20120026]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:11:27 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[58458376]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:16:17 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[58458558]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:21:07 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[17564104]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:25:57 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[43057456]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:31:48 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[23462412]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:36:37 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[4325842]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:41:28 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[52036014]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:46:18 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[18875116]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:51:09 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[43057622]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>> Apr 16 10:55:58 kug01132 user:err|error cf-agent[46203222]: 
>>>>>>>> CFEngine(agent)  Couldn't run '/usr/bin/getent'. (execv: No such file or 
>>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> needs to be fixed...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> wbr
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> chris
>>>>>>>>
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