Re: Problem with pagsh in AFS directory

[Alf Wachsmann <alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Love wrote:
> Alf Wachsmann <alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> >
> > we found a weired difference between AFS' pagsh and Heimdal's pagsh.
> >
> > When executed in an AFS directory with_out_ "system:anyuser l"
> > permissions, the following command
> > 	/opt/heimdal/bin/pagsh -c "exec /bin/pwd"
> > fails with
> > 	pagsh: execvp: Permission denied
> >
> > The same command with AFS' pagsh works just fine.
> >
> > Adding "system:anyuser l" permissions to the AFS directory I am
> > executing this test in makes the Heimdal pagsh work.
> >
> > Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> Its pagsh that eats -c, with this patch I don't have your problem.

This patch does the job!

Many thanks,
                Alf.


> --- appl/afsutil/pagsh.c	14 Oct 2003 12:32:39 -0000	1.8
> +++ appl/afsutil/pagsh.c	27 Jul 2004 10:46:26 -0000
> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
>
>    unsetenv("PAGPID");
>    execvp(path, args);
> -  if (errno == ENOENT) {
> +  if (errno == ENOENT || c_flag) {
>        char **sh_args = malloc ((i + 2) * sizeof(char *));
>        int j;
>
>

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