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Bug 1531 - Kvpnc is useless as it is not possible to run as root.
Summary: Kvpnc is useless as it is not possible to run as root.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tdenetwork (show other bugs)
Version: R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware: Other Debian Wheezy
: P5 critical
Assignee: Slávek Banko
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Reported: 2013-05-29 07:40 CDT by Martin Hodges
Modified: 2013-09-29 08:15 CDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Martin Hodges 2013-05-29 07:40:54 CDT 
Kvpnc closes after starting claiming that it must be run as root.
It refuses to run even if one manages to get it to run as root.
One cannot set the suid bit as the tde libraries complain.
Running the program as 'tdesudo vpnc' reports that the program does not exist.
Running 'tdesudo /opt/trinity/bin/vpnc' runs but the program complains that it has not been run as root.
Comment 1 Francois Andriot 2013-07-20 05:28:40 CDT 
I can run kvpnc as root as well as non-root here, no problem at all.
It looks like the debian-specific build patches are the cause of the problem.
Comment 2 Slávek Banko 2013-09-29 05:44:32 CDT 
Well, I see it. In tde-packaging are for Debian / Ubuntu two additional patches.

First adds into executed command "su-to-root", which is probably unnecessary when in the TDE works well X-TDE-SubstituteUID=true.

The second adds a condition if (getenv("USER") != "root"), which apparently does not work well.

Will be fixed soon...
Comment 3 Slávek Banko 2013-09-29 08:15:25 CDT 
Fixed in GIT hash bb2b374e (kvpnc) and 96cd6c80 (tde-packaging).