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bug#55450: bitlbee running as root


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#55450: bitlbee running as root
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 15:30:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Starting from commit 211fe3f66e6dfdaa64974931c458ab1d92afc182, if PID 1
is Shepherd 0.9.0, the bitlbee daemon was started on-demand as an inetd
service.

However, due to a logic bug, it was running as root (in a separate user
namespace though) instead of running as “bitlbee”.  The bug is that we
were spawning “bitlbee -u bitlbee” as root; normally, bitlbee would
setuid to the “bitlbee” user early on, but since it was in a separate
namespace and with a minimal /etc/passwd, it couldn’t do anything and
kept the current UID (that UID was 1000 inside the user namespace, but 0
outside).

Fix coming soon…

Ludo’.





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