RE: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

RE: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Charles Wilson]

> The test release of inetutils installs fine with setup.
> I tested it with my original xinetd setup (replacing the in.* daemons with the new ones).
> 
> Authentication via ftpd does not seem to work in the new release:
> ...
> 530 Login incorrect.

This is odd. ftpd works for me
  1) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service on its own,
  running under the local system account
  2) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service using cygrunsrv,
  running under the local system account
  3) on XP SP2, where inetd is invoked via sysvinit's init process
  (/etc/rc.d/inetd), and were init is running under the local system
  account

However, ftpd does not work if inetd is running under
sshd_server/cyg_server/other_privileged_user -- so I assume it will not
yet work under vista.  But that issue is not a regression, AFAICT. What
are the details of your installation?  I don't need full cygcheck, just
OS ver, user that inetd is running as, whether inetd is installed as a
service on its own, under cygrunsrv, or via sysvinit's init service (and
the user under which init is running), and an `ls -l' listing of /etc.

> Remote commands via the new rsh do not seem to work:
> >rsh vzell@xp.de.oracle.com ls
> /bin/rsh: must be setuid root.

Hm. again, this works for me -- unless inetd is running under a
"privileged user". This is because rshd contains code to check the UID
(against '18' == LocalSystem; it doesn't know how to deal with other
privileged UIDs. But again -- the old rshd had the same limitation in
the code, so I am a bit confused as to how it worked for you, before.
Unless xinetd was running under LocalSystem, but inetd is not?

> Last question. What is .talkrc for ? I get the following in /var/log/messages when running talk. The man page says nothing.
> Mar 18 13:30:37 localhost talkd: PID 2132: can't open config file /home/vzell/.talkrc: No such file or directory

You're right, this is not documented at all.

2001-10-25  Sergey Poznyakoff

        Talkd essencially rewritten. New feature: system-wide and
        user-specific access-control lists allow for controlling
        who and from where is able to request talks.

Somebody also mentioned that error message (note the date):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2002-09/msg00037.html
but it was never corrected.

Anyway, it seems that .talkrc is intended for per-user access control,
like the `talkd --acl FILE' option is for site-wide access control. 
  -a, --acl FILE         read site-wide ACLs from FILE
The format of the site-wide acl file and the per-user acl file is the
same -- because it is parsed by the same code. However, the format isn't
documented at all, either.

Perusing the code, it looks like the format is:

allow|deny <RE> <INET> [<INET> [<INET> ...]

where one of allow/deny is required
<RE> is a regular expression (regcomp() style) that is applied to the
caller's username. Whether "Extended" RE patterns are allowed depends on
the system implementation of regcomp.
<INET> is a network address. It appears that any of these formats work:
  192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 
  192.168.1.0/24
  192.168.1.2
  any
but no dns lookups are possible. Both <RE> and (one of the) <INET> have
to match for the specified rule (allow or deny) to apply. The default
behavior is:

allow * any

I'll look into silencing that "error" message.

BTW, I hadn't even gotten around to announcing this as an official test
release yet. You're really on the ball...

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Re: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 18 12:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > The test release of inetutils installs fine with setup.
> > I tested it with my original xinetd setup (replacing the in.* daemons with the new ones).
> > 
> > Authentication via ftpd does not seem to work in the new release:
> > ...
> > 530 Login incorrect.
> 
> This is odd. ftpd works for me
>   1) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service on its own,
>   running under the local system account
>   2) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service using cygrunsrv,
>   running under the local system account
>   3) on XP SP2, where inetd is invoked via sysvinit's init process
>   (/etc/rc.d/inetd), and were init is running under the local system
>   account
> 
> However, ftpd does not work if inetd is running under
> sshd_server/cyg_server/other_privileged_user -- so I assume it will not
> yet work under vista.  But that issue is not a regression, AFAICT. What
> are the details of your installation?

That is a regression, afaics.  The privileged account needs the specific
user privileges to change the user context, but if it has these
privileges, it should behave not different than when running under the
SYSTEM account in earlier versions of Windows.  The old ftpd doesn't test
the uid for being any fixed value.  Same for inetd.

> Hm. again, this works for me -- unless inetd is running under a
> "privileged user". This is because rshd contains code to check the UID
> (against '18' == LocalSystem; it doesn't know how to deal with other
> privileged UIDs. But again -- the old rshd had the same limitation in
> the code, 

Uh, no.  the old rshd has this in the code:

  #ifdef __CYGWIN__
	  uid_t ROOT_UID = getuid ();
  #else
	  ROOT_UID	(0)
  #endif


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Re: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Charles Wilson writes:

    >> The test release of inetutils installs fine with setup.
    >> I tested it with my original xinetd setup (replacing the in.* daemons with the new ones).
    >> 
    >> Authentication via ftpd does not seem to work in the new release:
    >> ...
    >> 530 Login incorrect.

    > This is odd. ftpd works for me
    >   1) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service on its own,
    >   running under the local system account
    >   2) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service using cygrunsrv,
    >   running under the local system account
    >   3) on XP SP2, where inetd is invoked via sysvinit's init process
    >   (/etc/rc.d/inetd), and were init is running under the local system
    >   account

    > However, ftpd does not work if inetd is running under
    > sshd_server/cyg_server/other_privileged_user -- so I assume it will not
    > yet work under vista.  But that issue is not a regression, AFAICT. What
    > are the details of your installation?  I don't need full cygcheck, just
    > OS ver, user that inetd is running as, whether inetd is installed as a
    > service on its own, under cygrunsrv, or via sysvinit's init service (and
    > the user under which init is running), and an `ls -l' listing of /etc.


OS: XP SP2

I was running xinetd with my previous tests (but checked now inetd and it
is the same) with your option 3) under Local System account.


06:41 PM [632]> ls -l
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-rw-r--r--   1 vzell  admin    5183 Feb 16  2006 xpdfrc
-rw-r--r--   1 vzell  admin     534 Dec 10  2002 zprofile

--------

If I try the old rsh against your new daemons it seems to work:

06:53 PM [637]> /bin/rsh vzell@localhost pwd
/home/vzell

and in /var/log/messages:

Mar 18 18:53:28 localhost rshd: PID 160: 2nd port not reserved 1022
Mar 18 18:53:51 localhost rshd: PID 2948: vzell@xp.de.oracle.com as vzell: cmd='pwd'

---

By the way, for every telnet session I see the following two entries in
/var/log/messages

Mar 18 18:02:11 localhost telnetd: PID 180: ttloop: retrying
Mar 18 18:02:39 localhost telnetd: PID 180: child process 1180 exited: 0

Is this expected behaviour ?

    > Chuck

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  Volker
  

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Re: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Charles Wilson]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 18 12:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> This is odd. ftpd works for me
>>   1) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service on its own,
>>   running under the local system account
>>   2) on XP SP2, where inetd is installed as a service using cygrunsrv,
>>   running under the local system account
>>   3) on XP SP2, where inetd is invoked via sysvinit's init process
>>   (/etc/rc.d/inetd), and were init is running under the local system
>>   account
>>
>> However, ftpd does not work if inetd is running under
>> sshd_server/cyg_server/other_privileged_user -- so I assume it will not
>> yet work under vista.  But that issue is not a regression, AFAICT. What
>> are the details of your installation?
> 
> That is a regression, afaics.  The privileged account needs the specific
> user privileges to change the user context, but if it has these
> privileges, it should behave not different than when running under the
> SYSTEM account in earlier versions of Windows.  The old ftpd doesn't test
> the uid for being any fixed value. 

ftp was the worst as far as porting changes from 1.3.2-X to 1.5. LOTS of 
stuff. It is entirely possible that I (a) missed something in forward 
porting old modifications, or (b) there was some new code in 1.5 that 
needed modification and I missed that.

That's why this is a test release. It works for me, but I've only got 
the one computer (* okay, I just got a vista machine last week, but I 
haven't even tried to install cygwin on it. Reading the horror stories...)

> Same for inetd.

Right. I had no issues with inetd *itself*, running under the cyg_server 
(or sshd_server) account. It was (some of) the slave daemons that were 
troublesome -- but not all.  telnetd works (for me), for instance.  I 
remember that at least one of the r* cmds worked (for me), too -- except 
that unless LocalServer, .rhosts were not honored.


> Uh, no.  the old rshd has this in the code:
> 
>   #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> 	  uid_t ROOT_UID = getuid ();
>   #else
> 	  ROOT_UID	(0)
>   #endif

Oops. I was thinking of rlogind:

#define ROOT_UID    18

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Re: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 18 13:46, Charles Wilson wrote:
> (* okay, I just got a vista machine last week, but I haven't 
> even tried to install cygwin on it. Reading the horror stories...)

<diabolical laughter>

> Oops. I was thinking of rlogind:
>
> #define ROOT_UID    18

Uh oh.  There's a certain chance that I never tested that on post-XP
either...


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Re: inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Charles Wilson]

Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

Fixed the ftp problem. It was an '=' vs. '==' transcription bug.

> If I try the old rsh against your new daemons it seems to work:
> 
> 06:53 PM [637]> /bin/rsh vzell@localhost pwd
> /home/vzell

Fixed this. The new version of rsh added a check to ensure that rsh.exe 
client had the setuid bit ON (that is, its getuid() is 'root'), and 
exited otherwise.  Obvious that's wrong on cygwin.  The only reason 
'/bin/rsh user@machine' (with no command) worked is because that is 
implmented as 'exec rlogin' BEFORE checking the setuid -- and the 
rlogin.exe client does not check that getuid() is 'root').

> and in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Mar 18 18:53:28 localhost rshd: PID 160: 2nd port not reserved 1022

This was a red herring. Just a cut-n-paste error; this log message 
belonged elsewhere in the code.

> Mar 18 18:53:51 localhost rshd: PID 2948: vzell@xp.de.oracle.com as vzell: cmd='pwd'

Normal log message when a rcmd/rexec/rsh fails. The failure was due to 
the setuid thing, above.

> By the way, for every telnet session I see the following two entries in
> /var/log/messages
> 
> Mar 18 18:02:11 localhost telnetd: PID 180: ttloop: retrying
> Mar 18 18:02:39 localhost telnetd: PID 180: child process 1180 exited: 0
> 
> Is this expected behaviour ?

Well, kinda. If your server is faster than your client...

//<<< function io_drain >>>//
  again:
   ncc = read (net, netibuf, sizeof netibuf);
   if (ncc < 0)
     {
       if (errno == EAGAIN)
         {
           syslog (LOG_INFO, "ttloop: retrying");
           goto again;
         }

It just means that you tried to read from an empty but non-blocking 
socket. I don't really like the way this is coded; it's a 100% busy 
loop. But, that's why it's called ttloop (which is the only caller of 
io_drain):

#define ttloop(c) while (c) io_drain ()

But ttloop is used rather sparingly -- for instance, while doing the 
handshaking to set up the login prompt. Most of the time telnetd sits in 
a select() loop.

--
Chuck

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inetutils-1.5-2 test release

[Dr. Volker Zell]

Hi

The test release of inetutils installs fine with setup.

I tested it with my original xinetd setup (replacing the
in.* daemons with the new ones).

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Authentication via ftpd does not seem to work in the new release:

NEW:

>ftp xp.de.oracle.com
Connected to xp.de.oracle.com.
220-
220- Connected to the cygwin ftp server...
220-
220 xp.de.oracle.com FTP server (GNU inetutils 1.5) ready.
Name (xp.de.oracle.com:vzell):
331 Password required for vzell.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
/bin/ftp: Login failed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

OLD:

>ftp xp.de.oracle.com
Connected to xp.de.oracle.com.
220-
220- Connected to the cygwin ftp server...
220-
220 xp FTP server (GNU inetutils 1.3.2) ready.
Name (xp.de.oracle.com:vzell):
331 Password required for vzell.
Password:
230-       ____________________,             ______________________________________
230-    .QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQL_         |                                      |
230-  .gQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ__   |                                      |
230-  gQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ==   |                    _.---.)           |
230-  QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQF=         |          (^--^)_.-"      `;          |
230-  QQQQQQQQQ================!            |          ) ee (           |          |
230-  QQQQQQQQ                              |         (_.__._)         /           |
230-  QQQQQQQQ                              |           `--',        ,'            |
230-  QQQQQQQQ     ~"jjj__,                 |            jgs )_|--')_|             |
230-  QQQQQQQQ       "jjjjjjjjjj___         |                ""'   ""'             |
230-  QQQQQQQQ        ~jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj__  |                                      |
230-  QQQQQQQQ        _jjjjjjjjjjjjjj/~~~~  |      The Hippo says: Welcome to      |
230-  QQQQQQQQ      .{jjjjjjj/~~~~~         |                             _        |
230-  QQQQQQQQ     .{/~~~~`                 |  ____  _   _   ____  _ _ _ (_) ____  |
230-  QQQQQQQQ                              | / ___)| | | | / _  || | | || ||  _ \ |
230-  QQQQQQQQ                              |( (___ | |_| |( (_| || | | || || | | ||
230-  QQQQQQQQQL_______________,            | \____) \__  | \___ | \___/ |_||_| |_||
230-  QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQL___       |        (___/  (____|                 |
230-  4QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ___  |                                      |
230-  (=QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ====   |       -.-. -.-- --. .-- .. -.        |
230-    (QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQF=         |______________________________________|
230-
230 User vzell logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> 221 Goodbye.

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Remote commands via the new rsh do not seem to work:

NEW
>rsh vzell@xp.de.oracle.com ls
/bin/rsh: must be setuid root.

OLD:

>rsh vzell@xp.de.oracle.com ls
1016989963.dat
1016989963.phb
AddrBook.Dat
Calendar
:
:
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Last question. What is .talkrc for ? I get the following in
/var/log/messages when running talk. The man page says nothing.

Mar 18 13:30:37 localhost talkd: PID 2132: can't open config file /home/vzell/.talkrc: No such file or directory

Ciao
  Volker

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