We check the same condition at various places. Let's add a trivial,
common helper for this, and use it everywhere.
It's not going to make things much faster or much shorter, but I think a
lot more readable
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This is the first error message when running unprivileged, and the message is
unspecific, so let's at least add some logging at debug level to make this less
confusing.
This is quite ugly, but provides us with an avenue for moving
distributions to define the "nobody" user properly without breaking legacy
systems that us the name for other stuff.
The idea is basically, that the distribution adopts the new definition
of "nobody" (and thus recompiles systemd with it) and then touches
/etc/systemd/dont-synthesize-nobody on legacy systems to turn off
possibly conflicting synthesizing of the nobody name by systemd.
We already synthesize records for both "root" and "nobody" in
nss-systemd. Let's do the same in our own NSS wrappers that are supposed
to bypass NSS if possible. Previously this was done for "root" only, but
let's clean this up, and do the same for "nobody" too, so that we
synthesize records the same way everywhere, regardless whether in NSS or
internally.
Already, path_is_safe() refused paths container the "." dir. Doing that
isn't strictly necessary to be "safe" by most definitions of the word.
But it is necessary in order to consider a path "normalized". Hence,
"path_is_safe()" is slightly misleading a name, but
"path_is_normalize()" is more descriptive, hence let's rename things
accordingly.
No functional changes.
We don't have plural in the name of any other -util files and this
inconsistency trips me up every time I try to type this file name
from memory. "formats-util" is even hard to pronounce.
Let's drop the caching of the setgroups /proc field for now. While there's a
strict regime in place when it changes states, let's better not cache it since
we cannot really be sure we follow that regime correctly.
More importantly however, this is not in performance sensitive code, and
there's no indication the cache is really beneficial, hence let's drop the
caching and make things a bit simpler.
Also, while we are at it, rework the error handling a bit, and always return
negative errno-style error codes, following our usual coding style. This has
the benefit that we can sensible hanld read_one_line_file() errors, without
having to updat errno explicitly.
This adds a new call get_user_creds_clean(), which is just like
get_user_creds() but returns NULL in the home/shell parameters if they contain
no useful information. This code previously lived in execute.c, but by
generalizing this we can reuse it in run.c.
Otherwise building may fail with:
src/basic/user-util.c: In function 'get_home_dir':
src/basic/user-util.c:343:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'secure_getenv' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
So far we had two pretty much identical calls in user-util.[ch]:
lookup_uid() and uid_to_name(). Get rid of the former, in favour of the
latter, and while we are at it, rewrite it, to use getpwuid_r()
correctly, inside an allocation loop, as POSIX intended.
Lennart Poettering