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Bug#683472: marked as done (unblock: xen-api/1.3.2-10)

Your message dated Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:23:13 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #683472,
regarding unblock: xen-api/1.3.2-10
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package xen-api

The current version in Wheezy suffers from a wrong default PAM setting of
PAM, giving access to XAPI to any account on th server, as per:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-api/2012-07/msg00059.html

Relevant diff:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xen/xen-api.git;a=commitdiff;h=c75c43b2fd6ab55113023e6f9b6510f5cdd3573e

So, please unblock xen-api/1.3.2-10 ASAP.

Cheers,

Thomas

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On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 11:21 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 08/04/2012 11:52 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > The changelog and actual changes appear to disagree:
> > 
> > +    - Adds a xapi group.
> > +    - Configure PAM to only grant access to root and xapi groups.
> > 
> > versus
> > 
> > ++auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup root
> > ++#auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup xapi
[...]
> It has been decided at the last moment, together with upstream (eg: Mike
> from Citrix) that we would add the xapi group, but only provide the pam
> configuration with disabled access to XAPI for the members of this
> group, for security purpose, and to force the admins to understand how
> it worked.

Then the changelog shouldn't suggest that installing the new version
allows members of the new group to gain the access without any further
action.

> To provide access to a user to XAPI, an administrator would have to add
> such user into the XAPI group, then uncomment the above line.
> 
> So, even though it could have been mentioned in the changelog, I think
> it is fine the way it is right now. If you feel we should, I don't mind
> mentioning it in the README.Debian.

Well, the point of the changelog is rather to document the changes, not
something that's kinda sorta close to the changes.  I've unblocked the
package, but the existence of the group and its use should really be
documented.  Indeed, given that this is a behavioural change from the
previous version of the package, a NEWS.Debian mention would quite
possibly be appropriate.

Regards,

Adam

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