"/": Owner not root, current uid, or pdsh executable owner about pdsh

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Interesting. The check is there to ensure that modules loaded dynamically
into the pdsh binary are not from an untrusted source or a path that could
have been modified by an untrusted source.

To work around this you can install pdsh as the 'admin' user instead of 'root'
This will tell the pdsh binary that path elements owned by 'admin' 'root' or 
your
uid are ok.

If you are not able to reinstall pdsh as the admin user, then you can rebuild 
pdsh
without the _path_permissions_ok() check in src/pdsh/pdsh.c.

Is this a linux laptop, or mac osx or something else?

Original comment by [email protected] on 15 Aug 2012 at 9:13

• Changed state: Accepted

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hi Mark,

I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3, Kernel Version:   Darwin 11.3.0. 

All the folders except the root one "/" in the path "/usr/local/lib/pdsh" is 
owned by "root " user.
$ ll -d /usr/local/lib/pdsh
drwsr-sr-x  14 root  wheel   476B Aug 15 14:01 /usr/local/lib/pdsh
$ ll -d /usr/local/lib
drwxrwxr-x  4 root  wheel   136B Aug 13 18:32 /usr/local/lib
$ ll -d /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root  wheel   374B Aug 13 18:32 /usr/local
$ ll -d /usr
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 root  wheel   442B Jun 26 13:20 /usr
$ ll -d /
drwxr-xr-x  42 admin  admin   1.5K Jul  6 14:12 /

So I have not reinstalled pdsh, just changed the owner of pdsh and pdcp to 
admin and set sticky bit on them:
ll /usr/local/bin/pdsh /usr/local/bin/pdcp 
-rwsr-xr-x  1 admin  wheel   152K Aug 15 14:01 /usr/local/bin/pdcp
-rwsr-xr-x  1 admin  wheel   152K Aug 15 14:01 /usr/local/bin/pdsh

Now it works with modules.
Thank you!

Original comment by [email protected] on 15 Aug 2012 at 11:08

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Ok, great!

Original comment by [email protected] on 15 Aug 2012 at 11:57

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Type-Other
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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If possible, could you remove my name from my first comment. I forgot to clean 
up the shell output posted there.
Thanks!

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Aug 2012 at 2:02

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Unfortunately the comment text from the original issue report can't be modified 
(afaik) with google code. Sorry! :-(

If I figure out a way I can delete the original report or modify it.

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Aug 2012 at 3:38

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 sudo chmod 1755 /usr/local worked!

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 Jun 2014 at 7:06