This is preparation for making our Varlink API a public API. Since our
Varlink API is built on top of our JSON API we need to make that public
first (it's a nice API, but JSON APIs there are already enough, this is
purely about the Varlink angle).
I made most of the json.h APIs public, and just placed them in
sd-json.h. Sometimes I wasn't so sure however, since the underlying data
structures would have to be made public too. If in doubt I didn#t risk
it, and moved the relevant API to src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.h
instead (without any sd_* symbol prefixes).
This is mostly a giant search/replace patch.
These are wrappers around getpwuid_r() and friends, and will allocate the
right-sized buffer for this call.
We so far had multiple implementations of a buffer allocation loop
around getpwuid_r() and friends, and they all suck in some way. Let's
clean this up and add a common implementation, and use it everywhere.
Also, be more careful with error numbers, in particular systematically
turn ENOENT into ENOSRCH (the former is what is returned if /etc/passwd
is absent, which we want to consider identical to user not existing,
which is ENOSRCH). We so far did this at some invocations, but not all.
There are some invocations of getpwuid() left in the codebase. We really
should fix those too, and have a single unified implementation of the
logic, but those are not as trivial to convert, so left for another
time.
"static inline" makes sense in .h files. But in .c files it's useless
decoration, the compiler should just make its own decisions there, and
it can do that.
hence, replace all remaining uses of "static line" by a simple" static"
in all .c files (but keep them in .h files, where they make sense)
strv_extend_strv_utf8_only() uses a temporary buffer to make the implementation
conscise. Otherwise we'd have to rewrite all of strv_extend_strv() which didn't
seem worth the trouble for this one use outside of a hot path.
If the data is not serializable, we just pretend it doesn't exists.
This fixes#16683 and https://bugs.gentoo.org/735072 in a second way.
They both are both short and contain similar parts and various helper will be
shared between both parts of the code so it's easier to use a single file.
We would reject various passwords that glibc accepts, for example ""
or any descrypted password. Accounts with empty password are definitely
useful, for example for testing or in scenarios where a password is not
needed. Also, using weak encryption methods is probably not a good idea,
it's not the job of our nss helpers to decide that: they should just
faithfully forward whatever data is there.
Also rename the function to make it more obvious that the returned answer
is not in any way certain.
Let's fix up invalid GECOS fields both when we convert from NSS to JSON
and the other way round.
Kinda sucks we have to do that, but NSS does it when writing data to
/etc/passwd, so let's do the same.
Fixes: #16668
Lennart Poettering
Yu Watanabe
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek