Re: Problem with pagsh in AFS directory

[Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>]

Alf Wachsmann <alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 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.

Love

--- 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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