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Bug#386334: marked as done (ktalkd: inetd as nobody.tty causes setgid/setuid as myuser: Operation not permitted)

Your message dated Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:02:08 -0400
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and subject line Closing bug # 206843
has caused the Debian Bug report #206843,
regarding ktalkd: inetd as nobody.tty causes setgid/setuid as myuser: Operation not permitted
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Package: ktalkd
Version: 4:3.5.4-2
Severity: normal


ktalkd is set to run as nobody.tty in /etc/inetd.conf.  When I try to
connect to it I get this in /var/log/daemon.log

Sep  6 16:03:24 pineapple ktalkd[6692]: connect from 192.168.1.233 (192.168.1.233)
Sep  6 16:03:24 pineapple ktalkd[6692]: 192.168.1.233: bad dns
Sep  6 16:03:25 pineapple ktalkd[6692]: 192.168.1.233: bad dns
Sep  6 16:03:26 pineapple ktalkd[6693]: connect from 192.168.1.44 (192.168.1.44)
Sep  6 16:03:26 pineapple ktalkd[6693]: XDM login: myuser at :0
Sep  6 16:03:26 pineapple ktalkd[6694]: Warning: setgid/setuid as myuser: Operation not permitted
Sep  6 16:03:26 pineapple ktalkd[6692]: 192.168.1.233: bad dns

I think the "setgid/setuid as myuser: Operation not permitted" line is
the problem.  The same problem exists in Etch as well.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages ktalkd depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a                   4:3.5.4-2  core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.1-5  GCC support library
ii  libqt3-mt                     3:3.3.6-3  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.1-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  netbase                       4.25       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ktalkd recommends:
ii  talk                          0.17-11    Chat with another user
pn  ytalk                         <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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This bug won't be fix upstream (and has been closed). See comment at
https://bugs.kde.org/147056:
"------- Comment #2 From David Faure 2008-07-03 19:08:35 (-) [reply] -------

So people are still using ktalkd? That's amazing.
It has been removed from KDE 4, for two reasons: apparent lack of
interest from users (IM has replaced talk for most people), and a
large number of security issues (I wrote ktalkd before I knew anything
about security, which is bad for a daemon running as root)....
Sorry, I don't think this bug will ever get fixed :("
Olivier

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