Message 195692 - Python tracker

➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author	vajrasky
Recipients	akuchling, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, serhiy.storchaka, vajrasky
Date	2013-08-20.14:27:05
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1377008825.5.0.595232350413.issue10388@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to

Content
Attached the patch to raise OSError instead of returning empty list if a normal user uses getspall function of spwd module. I investigated about this issue. There exists situation where /etc/shadow file does not exist: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117202 https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2887 So I think it is better to differentiate the result of the function where a normal user trying to access /etc/shadow file (permission denied, therefore should raise exception) or root user trying to access non-existent /etc/shadow file (therefore should get empty list).

Attached the patch to raise OSError instead of returning empty list if a normal user uses getspall function of spwd module.

I investigated about this issue. There exists situation where /etc/shadow file does not exist:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117202
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2887

So I think it is better to differentiate the result of the function where a normal user trying to access /etc/shadow file (permission denied, therefore should raise exception) or root user trying to access non-existent /etc/shadow file (therefore should get empty list).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-20 14:27:05	vajrasky	set	recipients: + vajrasky, loewis, akuchling, giampaolo.rodola, serhiy.storchaka
2013-08-20 14:27:05	vajrasky	set	messageid: <1377008825.5.0.595232350413.issue10388@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2013-08-20 14:27:05	vajrasky	link	issue10388 messages
2013-08-20 14:27:05	vajrasky	create