The new polkit will return a new detail regarding a successful
authentication: the actual result type, which we can use to
see whether the user authenticated as admin. This can be used
to grant additional privileges.
The flags parameter is parsed into a global variable, which means
when there are multiple consecutive calls it is reused. Switch to
a local copy.
Follow-up for 066f6bfb62
Assisted-by: kres (claude-opus-4-7)
Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
I am really not a fan of full code lines passed to macros as parameters.
Let's get rid of the 3rd parameter of FOREACH_OPTION() hence:
1. Let's return errors just as a regular value (though a negative one),
that can be handled via a OPTION_ERROR case statement for the switch.
This normalizes handling of the error, just like any other event
returned by the option parser.
2. In order to avoid exploding the amount of boilerplate in each use
(that just propagates the error on OPTION_ERROR), let's then
introduce an explicit FOREACH_OPTION_OR_RETURN(), that returns from
the calling function on its own (and makes that clear in the name).
Together this cleans up, normalizes the logic and shortens the code.
It was requested to make the 'c', 'opt', and 'arg' params the same, i.e.
defined through the FOREACH_OPTION macro. But we can't do that easily,
because 'c' was defined in the for loop definition, and we can only
define variables of the same type in that way. Also, in some cases we
need only 'c', in other cases with need 'c' and 'arg, in some cases 'c'
and 'opt', and in other cases all three. We'd need to either
conditionalize or mark those variables with _unused_ to deal with
compiler warnings. But a different approach works quite nicely: add
state.opt and state.arg to show the current option and it's argument.
(The short names are picked on purpose to reduce verbosity since those
are used a lot.)
We generally want to print an error message if table_print()
fails. Add a helper function for this and use it consistently.
This does one of the three things depending on the call site:
- a no-change reformatting of the code
- change from a custom message to the generic one
- addition of the error message where previously none was printed
In the third case, the actual use impact is very small, since the
table formatting is very unlikely to fail. But if it did, we would
often return an error without any message whatsoever, which we
never want to do.
Almost all callers of table_print() specify stdout or NULL (equivalent
to stdout) as the output stream. Simplify things by not requiring the
the stream to be specified.
In almost all cases, the printing of the table is surrounded by normal
printfs() that don't do explicit flushing and for which we don't check
the output stream status. Let's simplify most callers and skip this
step. The reason is not so much to avoid the extra step itself, but
instead to avoid the _handling_ of the potential failure. We generally
only want to print an error message for ENOMEM and other "internal"
errors, so strictly speaking we should filter out the errors from the
stream. By skipping the flush&check step we implicitly do this.
After writing the code to parse options in a bunch of places, I think
passing the argc+argv to various functions to query state is annoying.
It seems nicer to just stash them in the state struct once.
As reported in https://yeswehack.com/vulnerability-center/reports/705270,
YesWeHack issue #YWH-PGM9780-66, if a newline is injected into the message
field, it is passed through unmolested and lands in the .ini file. This
obviously would cause the parser to be confused.
Let's forbid any control characters or quotes in those fields. If we want
something more complicated in the future, we can add a custom validation
function and allow some escaping mechanism.
This commit cleans up the includes for all the small tools across
the tree.
A few cases of returning EXIT_SUCCESS are replaced with returning
0 to avoid including <stdlib.h>.
Split out of #37344.
This turns systemd-ask-password into a small Varlink service, so that
there's an standard IPC way to ask for a password. It mostly directly
exposes the functionality of the Varlink service.
This new field allows specification of an fd on which the password
prompt logic will look for POLLHUP events for, and if seen will abort
the query.
The usecase for this is that when we query for a pw on behalf of a
Varlink client we can abort the query automatically if the client dies.
Rather than adding more and more parameters to ask_password_auto(), let's
pass a structure of the fields that often are constant anyway.
This way, callers can fill in what they need, and we take the filled
structure which we can pass around internally as one.
This is in particular preparation for adding one more field in one of
the next commits.
The article "a" goes before consonant sounds and "an" goes before vowel
sounds. This commit changes an to a for UKI, UDP, UTF-8, URL, UUID, U-Label, UI
and USB, since they start with the sound /ˌjuː/.
ImportCredential= takes a credential name and searches for a matching
credential in all the credential stores we know about it. It supports
globs which are expanded so that all matching credentials are loaded.
Otherwise, if getopt() and friends are used before parse_argv(), then
the GNU extensions may be ignored.
This should not change any behavior at least now, as we usually use
getopt_long() only once per invocation. But in the next commit,
getopt_long() will be used for other arrays, hence this change will
become necessary.
The name "def.h" originates from before the rule of "no needless abbreviations"
was established. Let's rename the file to clarify that it contains a collection
of various semi-related constants.
In general we almost never hit those asserts in production code, so users see
them very rarely, if ever. But either way, we just need something that users
can pass to the developers.
We have quite a few of those asserts, and some have fairly nice messages, but
many are like "WTF?" or "???" or "unexpected something". The error that is
printed includes the file location, and function name. In almost all functions
there's at most one assert, so the function name alone is enough to identify
the failure for a developer. So we don't get much extra from the message, and
we might just as well drop them.
Dropping them makes our code a tiny bit smaller, and most importantly, improves
development experience by making it easy to insert such an assert in the code
without thinking how to phrase the argument.
This adds --visible=yes|no|asterisk which allow controlling the echo of
the password prompt in detail. The existing --echo switch is then made
an alias for --visible=yes (and a shortcut -e added for it too).
Giving --echo to systemd-ask-password allows to echo the user input.
There's nothing secret, so do not show a lock and key emoji by default.
The behavior can be controlled with --emoji=yes|no|auto. The default is
auto, which defaults to yes, unless --echo is given.
This adds generic support for the SetCredential=/LoadCredential= logic
to our password querying infrastructure: if a password is requested by a
program that has a credential store configured via
$CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY we'll look in it for a password.
The "systemd-ask-password" tool is updated with an option to specify the
credential to look for.
I think this formatting was originally used because it simplified
adding new options to the help messages. However, these days, most
tools their help message end with "\nSee the %s for details.\n" so
the final line almost never has to be edited which eliminates the
benefit of the custom formatting used for printf() help messages.
Let's make things more consistent and use the same formatting for
printf() help messages that we use everywhere else.
Prompted by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18355#discussion_r567241580
When emitting the calendarspec warning we want to see some color.
Follow-up for 04220fda5c.
Exceptions:
- systemctl, because it has a lot hand-crafted coloring
- tmpfiles, sysusers, stdio-bridge, etc, because they are also used in
services and I'm not sure if this wouldn't mess up something.
Ideally, coccinelle would strip unnecessary braces too. But I do not see any
option in coccinelle for this, so instead, I edited the patch text using
search&replace to remove the braces. Unfortunately this is not fully automatic,
in particular it didn't deal well with if-else-if-else blocks and ifdefs, so
there is an increased likelikehood be some bugs in such spots.
I also removed part of the patch that coccinelle generated for udev, where we
returns -1 for failure. This should be fixed independently.
This is a bit like the info link in most of GNU's --help texts, but we
don't do info but man pages, and we make them properly clickable on
terminal supporting that, because awesome.
I think it's generally advisable to link up our (brief) --help texts and
our (more comprehensive) man pages a bit, so this should be an easy and
straight-forward way to do it.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Luca Boccassi
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Jelle van der Waa
Daan De Meyer
Yu Watanabe
Lennart Poettering
Joerg Behrmann
Christian Hesse