From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 28429-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28429: [PATCH] gnu: Add John the Ripper.
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:20:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170913222007.1dd3ad35@centurylink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ls647le.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:22:21 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> >> /etc/passwd in the build environment has this line (see
> >> nix/libstore/build.cc:1859):
> >>
> >> nixbld:x:%1%:%2%:Nix build user:/:/noshell
> >>
> >> Isn’t it sufficient to have “/” as the home directory?
> >
> > It seems the build user noes not have sufficient permissions to create a
> > directory there? The tests want to create "~/.john" (specifically
> > "//.john").
>
> And setting ‘HOME’ isn’t enough? (There are several packages where we
> do that right before the ‘check’ phase.)
The code accesses 'getpwuid(getuid())->pw_dir', so effectively ignores
'HOME'.
>
> > From dd9795e5d63beaf06f2e3c76944e82a5564dc87d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 21:44:14 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add John the Ripper.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/password-utils.scm (john-the-ripper-jumbo): New variable.
>
> Perfect, thanks!
Pushed in eb28a777b5ad13e88d5932e9f97c976a079c94ac.
`~Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-14 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-12 2:50 [bug#28429] [PATCH] gnu: Add John the Ripper Eric Bavier
2017-09-13 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-13 13:46 ` Eric Bavier
2017-09-13 21:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-14 3:20 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
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