Jason Farrell wrote:
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, G.Wolfe
Woodbury<ggw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
F11+updates doing a "service httpd status" reports that the subsystem is
locked but httpd dead. Examination of ps output shows the httpd processes,
and pidof reports them. Prepending sudo to the service command does things
right.
Not sure why the sudo makes a difference, but it seems to me that it
shouldn't require root privleges to simply inquire for the status of
something.
That would be because the pidfile is located in /var/run/httpd vs
/var/run (as in rhel), and is not readable by nonroot:
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 2009-09-02 16:04 /var/run/httpd
Not really a bug since regular users don't need to be querying service
status, and httpd isn't singled out.
As pointed out by others, it is a bug since it is saying something that
is wrong.
But I would argue even further:
1) The information should be available to the normal user - just
like yum list and rpm -q
2) What have you gained by hiding the info that can be found by os
3) We want to minimize the need for privilege escalation, not maximize
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