author: bwarsaw 2002-08-23 20:44:35 +0000
committer: bwarsaw 2002-08-23 20:44:35 +0000
commit: 462af2760014b7e009ec38610d8d6e76fa07381b (patch)
tree: d27fe24f858a07de139774e5652e452ad54a67c1
parent: a4151aae864be733fd80546f7c20d8c23224dcc9 (diff)
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1 files changed, 174 insertions, 149 deletions
diff --git a/src/common.c b/src/common.c
index 9f867e136..34b81c321 100644
--- a/src/common.c
+++ b/src/common.c
@@ -6,28 +6,28 @@
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- * 
+ *
  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  * GNU General Public License for more details.
- * 
+ *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  */
 
 #include "common.h"
 
-/* passed in by configure */
-#define SCRIPTDIR PREFIX "/scripts/"	     /* trailing slash */
-#define MODULEDIR PREFIX		     /* no trailing slash */
+/* Passed in by configure. */
+#define SCRIPTDIR PREFIX "/scripts/"         /* trailing slash */
+#define MODULEDIR PREFIX                     /* no trailing slash */
 
 const char* scriptdir = SCRIPTDIR;
 const char* moduledir = MODULEDIR;
 char* python = PYTHON;
 
-/* bogus global variable used as a flag */
+/* Global variable used as a flag */
 int running_as_cgi = 0;
 
 
@@ -37,21 +37,22 @@ int running_as_cgi = 0;
  */
 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
 
-extern char *sys_errlist[];      
-extern int sys_nerr;                      
-        
-char* strerror(int errno)                
-{                                                   
-	if(errno < 0 || errno >= sys_nerr) { 
-		return "unknown error";
-	}
-	else {
-		return sys_errlist[errno];
-	}
+extern char *sys_errlist[];
+extern int sys_nerr;
+
+char* strerror(int errno)
+{
+        if (errno < 0 || errno >= sys_nerr) {
+                return "unknown error";
+        }
+        else {
+                return sys_errlist[errno];
+        }
 }
 
 #endif /* ! HAVE_STRERROR */
 
+
 
 /* Report on errors and exit
  */
@@ -61,56 +62,53 @@ void
 fatal(const char* ident, int exitcode, char* format, ...)
 {
 #ifndef HAVE_VSNPRINTF
-	/* a replacement is provided in vsnprintf.c */
-	int vsnprintf(char*, int, char*, va_list);
+        /* A replacement is provided in vsnprintf.c for ancient systems still
+	 * lacking one in their C library.
+	 */
+        int vsnprintf(char*, int, char*, va_list);
 #endif /* !HAVE_VSNPRINTF */
 
-	char log_entry[BUFSIZE];
+        char log_entry[BUFSIZE];
 
-	va_list arg_ptr;
-	va_start(arg_ptr, format);
+        va_list arg_ptr;
+        va_start(arg_ptr, format);
 
-	vsnprintf(log_entry, BUFSIZE, format, arg_ptr);
-	va_end(arg_ptr);
+        vsnprintf(log_entry, BUFSIZE, format, arg_ptr);
+        va_end(arg_ptr);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SYSLOG
-	/* Write to the console, maillog is often mostly ignored, and root
-	 * should definitely know about any problems.
-	 */
-	openlog(ident, LOG_CONS, LOG_MAIL);
-	syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s\n", log_entry);
-	closelog();
+        /* Write to the console, maillog is often mostly ignored, and root
+         * should definitely know about any problems.
+         */
+        openlog(ident, LOG_CONS, LOG_MAIL);
+        syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s\n", log_entry);
+        closelog();
 #endif /* HAVE_SYSLOG */
 
 #ifdef HELPFUL
-	/* If we're running as a CGI script, we also want to write the log
-	 * file out as HTML, so the admin who is probably trying to debug his
-	 * installation will have a better clue as to what's going on.
-	 *
-	 * Otherwise, print to stderr a short message, hopefully returned to
-	 * the sender by the MTA.
-	 */
-	if (running_as_cgi) {
-		printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
-		printf("<head>\n");
-		printf("<title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title>\n");
-		printf("</head><body>\n");
-		printf("<h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1>\n");
-		printf("The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did ");
-		printf("not match the gid as set by the Web server.");
-		printf("<p>The most likely cause is that Mailman was ");
-		printf("configured and installed incorrectly.  Please ");
-		printf("read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close ");
-		printf("attention to the <tt>--with-cgi-gid</tt> configure ");
-		printf("option.  This entry is being stored in your syslog:");
-		printf("\n<pre>\n");
-		printf(log_entry);
-		printf("</pre>\n");
-	}
-	else
-		fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", log_entry);
+        /* If we're running as a CGI script, we also want to write the log
+         * file out as HTML, so the admin who is probably trying to debug his
+         * installation will have a better clue as to what's going on.
+         *
+         * Otherwise, print to stderr a short message, hopefully returned to
+         * the sender by the MTA.
+         */
+        if (running_as_cgi) {
+                printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
+                printf("<head>\n");
+                printf("<title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title>\n");
+                printf("</head><body>\n");
+                printf("<h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1>\n");
+		printf("The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. ");
+		printf("This entry is being stored in your syslog:");
+                printf("\n<pre>\n");
+                printf(log_entry);
+                printf("</pre>\n");
+        }
+        else
+                fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", log_entry);
 #endif /* HELPFUL */
-	exit(exitcode);
+        exit(exitcode);
 }
 
 
@@ -118,15 +116,42 @@ fatal(const char* ident, int exitcode, char* format, ...)
 /* Is the parent process allowed to call us?
  */
 void
-check_caller(const char* ident, GID_T parentgid)
+check_caller(const char* ident, const char* parentgroup)
 {
-	GID_T mygid = getgid();
-	if (parentgid != mygid) {
-		fatal(ident, GID_MISMATCH,
-		      "Failure to exec script. WANTED gid %ld, GOT gid %ld.  "
-		      "(Reconfigure to take %ld?)",
-		      parentgid, mygid, mygid);
+        GID_T mygid = getgid();
+	struct group *mygroup = getgrgid(mygid);
+	char* option;
+	char* server;
+	char* wrapper;
+
+	if (running_as_cgi) {
+		option = "--with-cgi-gid";
+		server = "web";
+		wrapper = "CGI";
 	}
+	else {
+		option = "--with-mail-gid";
+		server = "mail";
+		wrapper = "mail";
+	}
+
+	if (!mygroup)
+		fatal(ident, GROUP_NAME_NOT_FOUND,
+		      "Failure to find group name %s.  Try adding this group\n"
+		      "to your system, or re-run configure, providing an\n"
+		      "existing group name with the command line option %s.",
+		      parentgroup, option);
+
+        if (strcmp(parentgroup, mygroup->gr_name))
+                fatal(ident, GROUP_MISMATCH,
+		      "Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the %s\n"
+		      "wrapper script to be executed as group \"%s\", but\n"
+		      "the system's %s server executed the %s script as\n"
+		      "group \"%s\".  Try tweaking the %s server to run the\n"
+		      "script as group \"%s\", or re-run configure, \n"
+		      "providing the command line option `%s=%s'.",
+		      wrapper, parentgroup, server, wrapper, mygroup->gr_name,
+		      server, parentgroup, option, mygroup->gr_name);
 }
 
 
@@ -142,12 +167,12 @@ check_caller(const char* ident, GID_T parentgid)
  * them right (which it should because Python strings have no hard limits).
  */
 static char* killenvars[] = {
-	"PYTHONPATH=",
-	"PYTHONHOME=",
-	"PATH=",
-	NULL
+        "PYTHONPATH=",
+        "PYTHONHOME=",
+        "PATH=",
+        NULL
 };
-    
+
 
 
 /* Run a Python script out of the script directory
@@ -161,27 +186,27 @@ static char* killenvars[] = {
 int
 run_script(const char* script, int argc, char** argv, char** env)
 {
-	const char envstr[] = "PYTHONPATH=";
-	const int envlen = strlen(envstr);
+        const char envstr[] = "PYTHONPATH=";
+        const int envlen = strlen(envstr);
 
-	int envcnt = 0;
-	int i, j, status;
-	char** newenv;
-	char** newargv;
+        int envcnt = 0;
+        int i, j, status;
+        char** newenv;
+        char** newargv;
 
-	/* We need to set the real gid to the effective gid because there are
-	 * some Linux systems which do not preserve the effective gid across
-	 * popen() calls.  This breaks mail delivery unless the ~mailman/data
-	 * directory is chown'd to the uid that runs mail programs, and that
-	 * isn't a viable alternative.
-	 */
+        /* We need to set the real gid to the effective gid because there are
+         * some Linux systems which do not preserve the effective gid across
+         * popen() calls.  This breaks mail delivery unless the ~mailman/data
+         * directory is chown'd to the uid that runs mail programs, and that
+         * isn't a viable alternative.
+         */
 #ifdef HAVE_SETREGID
-	status = setregid(getegid(), -1);
-	if (status)
-		fatal(logident, SETREGID_FAILURE, "%s", strerror(errno));
+        status = setregid(getegid(), -1);
+        if (status)
+                fatal(logident, SETREGID_FAILURE, "%s", strerror(errno));
 #endif /* HAVE_SETREGID */
 
-	/* We want to tightly control how the CGI scripts get executed.
+        /* We want to tightly control how the CGI scripts get executed.
          * For portability and security, the path to the Python executable
          * is hard-coded into this C wrapper, rather than encoded in the #!
          * line of the script that gets executed.  So we invoke those
@@ -191,78 +216,78 @@ run_script(const char* script, int argc, char** argv, char** env)
          * We also need to hack on the PYTHONPATH environment variable so
          * that the path to the installed Mailman modules will show up
          * first on sys.path.
-	 *
+         *
          */
-	for (envcnt = 0; env[envcnt]; envcnt++)
-		;
+        for (envcnt = 0; env[envcnt]; envcnt++)
+                ;
 
-	/* okay to be a little too big */
-	newenv = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * (envcnt + 2));
+        /* okay to be a little too big */
+        newenv = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * (envcnt + 2));
 
-	/* filter out any troublesome environment variables */
-	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < envcnt; i++) {
-		char** k = &killenvars[0];
-		int keep = 1;
-		while (*k) {
-			if (!strncmp(*k, env[i], strlen(*k))) {
-				keep = 0;
-				break;
-			}
-			*k++;
-		}
-		if (keep)
-			newenv[j++] = env[i];
-	}
+        /* filter out any troublesome environment variables */
+        for (i = 0, j = 0; i < envcnt; i++) {
+                char** k = &killenvars[0];
+                int keep = 1;
+                while (*k) {
+                        if (!strncmp(*k, env[i], strlen(*k))) {
+                                keep = 0;
+                                break;
+                        }
+                        *k++;
+                }
+                if (keep)
+                        newenv[j++] = env[i];
+        }
 
-	/* Tack on our own version of PYTHONPATH, which should contain only
-	 * the path to the Mailman package modules.
-	 *
-	 * $(PREFIX)/modules
-	 */
-	newenv[j] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * (
-		strlen(envstr) +
-		strlen(moduledir) +
-		1));
-	strcpy(newenv[j], envstr);
-	strcat(newenv[j], moduledir);
-	j++;
+        /* Tack on our own version of PYTHONPATH, which should contain only
+         * the path to the Mailman package modules.
+         *
+         * $(PREFIX)/modules
+         */
+        newenv[j] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * (
+                strlen(envstr) +
+                strlen(moduledir) +
+                1));
+        strcpy(newenv[j], envstr);
+        strcat(newenv[j], moduledir);
+        j++;
 
-	newenv[j] = NULL;
+        newenv[j] = NULL;
 
-	/* Now put together argv.  This will contain first the absolute path
-	 * to the Python executable, then the -S option (to speed executable
-	 * start times), then the absolute path to the script, then any
-	 * additional args passed in argv above.
-	 */
-	newargv = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * (argc + 3));
-	j = 0;
-	newargv[j++] = python;
-	newargv[j++] = "-S";
-	newargv[j] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * (
-		strlen(scriptdir) +
-		strlen(script) +
-		1));
-	strcpy(newargv[j], scriptdir);
-	strcat(newargv[j], script);
+        /* Now put together argv.  This will contain first the absolute path
+         * to the Python executable, then the -S option (to speed executable
+         * start times), then the absolute path to the script, then any
+      * additional args passed in argv above.
+         */
+        newargv = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * (argc + 3));
+        j = 0;
+        newargv[j++] = python;
+        newargv[j++] = "-S";
+        newargv[j] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * (
+                strlen(scriptdir) +
+                strlen(script) +
+                1));
+        strcpy(newargv[j], scriptdir);
+        strcat(newargv[j], script);
 
-	/* now tack on all the rest of the arguments.  we can skip argv's
-	 * first two arguments because, for cgi-wrapper there is only argv[0].
-	 * For mail-wrapper, argv[1] is the mail command (e.g. post,
-	 * mailowner, or mailcmd) and argv[2] is the listname.  The mail
-	 * command to execute gets passed in as this function's `script'
-	 * parameter and becomes the argument to the python interpreter.  The
-	 * list name therefore should become argv[2] to this process.
-	 *
-	 * TBD: have to make sure this works with alias-wrapper.
-	 */
-	for (i=2, j++; i < argc; i++)
-		newargv[j++] = argv[i];
+        /* now tack on all the rest of the arguments.  we can skip argv's
+         * first two arguments because, for cgi-wrapper there is only argv[0].
+         * For mail-wrapper, argv[1] is the mail command (e.g. post,
+         * mailowner, or mailcmd) and argv[2] is the listname.  The mail
+         * command to execute gets passed in as this function's `script'
+         * parameter and becomes the argument to the python interpreter.  The
+         * list name therefore should become argv[2] to this process.
+         *
+         * TBD: have to make sure this works with alias-wrapper.
+         */
+        for (i=2, j++; i < argc; i++)
+                newargv[j++] = argv[i];
 
-	newargv[j] = NULL;
+        newargv[j] = NULL;
 
-	/* return always means failure */
-	(void)execve(python, &newargv[0], &newenv[0]);
-	return EXECVE_FAILURE;
+        /* return always means failure */
+        (void)execve(python, &newargv[0], &newenv[0]);
+        return EXECVE_FAILURE;
 }
author	bwarsaw	2002-08-23 20:44:35 +0000
committer	bwarsaw	2002-08-23 20:44:35 +0000
commit	462af2760014b7e009ec38610d8d6e76fa07381b (patch)
tree	d27fe24f858a07de139774e5652e452ad54a67c1
parent	a4151aae864be733fd80546f7c20d8c23224dcc9 (diff)
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