On 10/02/2012 09:32 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1539
If the SSSD domain is running with SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL, then we also set
Kerberos tracing with krb5_set_trace_filename.
There's one catch, though. The krb5_child and ldap_child logs are only
writable by root, but the krb5_child process drops privileges to the
user before priming his ccache. With this patch applied and debug_level
set to 10, the krb5_child process doesn't drop privileges..
I personally think that's fine, because running with debug_level 10
SSSDBG_TRACE_ALL is actually level 9
provides a LOT of debugging so it should only be configured for
debugging anyway. Also we don't drop privileges in other scenarios..
Well, this really isn't acceptable. The reason we drop privileges is
because that's the only way to create the credential cache with the
proper ownership (and handle SELinux transitions).
I could maybe add a new param to the child or add heuristics to drop
privileges after the debugging is set but that seemed like an over
engineering when this feature is only useful for hardcode debugging.
I'd rather add a new debug level for this, if it's really the solution
we're going to take, I want it to be called out in the manpage that if
you set debug_level = 10 (or 0x8000) that you are accepting that the
added debug information comes at a cost, specifically that it will
result in unexpected behavior post-login (wrt access to the credential
cache). Because this is now owned by root, it's nontrivial to restore
access after this as well.
I would much prefer finding a different way to do the logging; perhaps
we could have the krb5_child log to krb5_child.$USER.log instead?