[stunnel-users] Trouble wrapping samba SWAT...

Ludolf Holzheid lholzheid at bihl-wiedemann.de
Mon Jun 16 21:47:58 CEST 2014


On Mon, 2014-06-16 12:53:36 +0200, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> and in /etc/stunnel/swat.conf.inetd:
> 
> 	cert = /etc/ssl/certs/LNFFVGNobel.pem
> 	key = /etc/ssl/private/LNFFVGNobel.pem
> 	CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/LNFFVG.pem
> 
> 	service = swat
> 	exec = /usr/sbin/swat
> 	execargs = swat -P
> 
> [..]
> 
> the only thing i suppose is that for some reason stunnel4, run by root
> in inetd, then switch to an unprivileged user before running swat,
> preventing access to /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb .

Marco,

I don't think stunnel changes the user ID without a 'setuid = '
statement in the configuration file (as it does not know which user ID
to switch to).  Are you sure, swat isn't changing the user ID?  Does
it work without being wrapped by stunnel?

Ludolf

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