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Bug #7418

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pfexec and the case of the missing error message

Added by Robert Mustacchi about 7 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Alex Wilson
Category:
kernel
Start date:
2016-09-27
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
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Description

pfexec doesn't currently give any useful error message when pfexecd is unavailable (e.g. in the joyent-minimal brand). Instead it just execs the command you asked for as your current user with no elevation. Really it should print something out.

The man page should probably be updated, too.

Note many commands today silently work in this vein because they never required the privileges, so we cannot error out the commands.

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Updated by Electric Monk about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

git commit 7d8cb570f5834dc4f535a463c1c0839a57ada912

commit  7d8cb570f5834dc4f535a463c1c0839a57ada912
Author: Alex Wilson <alex.wilson@joyent.com>
Date:   2016-10-15T22:30:23.000Z

    7418 pfexec and the case of the missing error message
    Reviewed by: Joshua M. Clulow <jmc@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Patrick Mooney <patrick.mooney@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>
    Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

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