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Re: Permission to do binNMUs for *-security



On 14.07.2017 16:47, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 03:15:11PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> I need to schedule a binNMU for samba in jessie-security on amd64 (it was
>> built on a stretch chroot or something).
>>
>> I tried to log on buildd.debian.org and schedule it myself as indicated on htt
>> ps://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/AdvisoryCreation/SecFull#BinNMUs but it
>> failed with:
>>
>> corsac@wuiet ~ % wb nmu samba . amd64 . jessie-security -m 'Rebuild in a clean jessie chroot'
>> DBI connect('service=wanna-build-privileged','',...) failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied at /usr/local/bin/wanna-build line 299.
>> FATAL: Cannot open database: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
>> W: can't get version info for samba/amd64
> 
> JFTR, I could trigger the binNMU with my user, but we should figure out
> why it didn't work for Yves-Alexis, ideally everyone in the 'security'
> group should be able to trigger those.

Authentication to the database is via passwords. I suggest filing an RT
ticket with DSA to get a database account provisioned. As the database
no longer lives on the same host, same machine authentication cannot be
used anymore.

(Once that's done we can look into permissions.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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