[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] shadow: fix the behavior of su

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-07-21 20:32, Chen Qi wrote:
> In systems where bash is not installed and /bin/sh is provided by
> busybox. Commands like `su -l -c '/home/root/test' xuser' would fail
> complaining the the 'su' applet could not be found.
>
> This patch references the old version of shadow to keep the behaviour
> the way it was in old version so that we would avoid the problem mentioned
> above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>

Acked-by: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>

> ---
>   .../0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch  |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc            |    1 +
>   2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..31337de
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +Upstream-Status: Pending
> +
> +Subject: su.c: fix to exec command correctly
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> +---
> + src/su.c |    2 +-
> + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/src/su.c b/src/su.c
> +index 3704217..bc4f2ac 100644
> +--- a/src/su.c
> ++++ b/src/su.c
> +@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
> + 		 * Use the shell and create an argv
> + 		 * with the rest of the command line included.
> + 		 */
> +-		argv[-1] = cp;
> ++		argv[-1] = shellstr;
> + 		execve_shell (shellstr, &argv[-1], environ);
> + 		err = errno;
> + 		(void) fprintf (stderr,
> +--
> +1.7.9.5
> +
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
> index 66541f4..84d1f86 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
>              file://shadow-4.1.3-dots-in-usernames.patch \
>              file://usermod-fix-compilation-failure-with-subids-disabled.patch \
>              file://fix-installation-failure-with-subids-disabled.patch \
> +           file://0001-su.c-fix-to-exec-command-correctly.patch \
>              ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)} \
>              "
>
>

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