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Bug 961510 - Please get sudo to create /run/user/$UID as part of session setup
Summary: Please get sudo to create /run/user/$UID as part of session setup
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sudo
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Kopeček
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 961235 985016
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Reported: 2013-05-09 19:05 UTC by Nalin Dahyabhai
Modified: 2015-02-17 15:12 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 15:12:44 UTC
Type: Bug
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proposed sample changes (1.57 KB, patch)
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Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-05-09 19:05:53 UTC 
Created attachment 745787 [details]
proposed sample changes

Description of problem:
As components (in this case, krb5) start expecting to find a runtime directory for the current user in the default location, commands run under sudo are going to be confused when the runtime directory isn't present.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sudo-1.8.6p7-1.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo ls /run/user
  
Actual results:
If the user the "ls" command runs as isn't/hasn't logged in, their directory under /run/user won't be there.

Expected results:
I'd like to see the directory there.
Comment 1 Karel Zak 2013-05-21 16:28:30 UTC 
Sounds like a bug #965419 for su(1). IMHO it's nasty hack to hardcode something like to this on multiple places. Why we we have PAM or logind?
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-05-21 17:47:55 UTC 
The logind process creates the directory for proper login sessions, but it uses the user's loginuid, which I expect isn't something we want to start changing in su and sudo.  I guess we don't already have a PAM module that does this specifically because pam_systemd causes the thing which we want to happen to be done the rest of the time.
Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2013-05-21 18:19:09 UTC 
Nalin, perhaps pam_systemd should do the right thing and not use loginuid but the uid of the user to be logged in.
Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-05-21 18:59:07 UTC 
(In reply to Tomas Mraz from comment #3)
> Nalin, perhaps pam_systemd should do the right thing and not use loginuid
> but the uid of the user to be logged in.

For the login shells, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR still points to the location that was created, but given that su can also be used to drop from root to an unprivileged user, there are cases where that's not so helpful ("ssh -t root@localhost su someuser", for example).  I haven't dug into the full set of design goals there, though, so I can't say for sure that it should be changed.
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