Bug#945888: The nscd daemon use a wrong path to open cache files
On 2020-02-08 17:57, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2019-11-30 16:00, André Rodier wrote:
> > Package: nscd
> > Version: 2.28-10
> >
> > When using AppArmor and ldap for users database, and nscd on Debian, a
> > lot of errors are visible in the AppArmor logs, when any program
> > queries nscd.
> >
> > The nscd daemon tries to open files in "var/cache/nscd/..." instead of
> > "/var/cache/nscd/...". Note the missing slash character at the
> > beginning. AppArmor complains about the file access denied, but the
> > error is really a missing '/' character in the path of the cache files.
>
> What makes you believe that? I have just tried with strace, and I see
> the correct path with the leading '/':
>
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/passwd", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/group", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 6
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 7
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/hosts", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 8
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 9
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/services", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 10
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/services", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 11
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/netgroup", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 12
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/nscd/netgroup", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 13
Any news about that?
Regards,
Aurelien
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