Bug#843191: systemd-sysv-install: policy creds not carried forward

[Felipe Sateler]

On 4 November 2016 at 16:05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-1
> Severity: normal
> File: systemd-sysv-install
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> rrs at learner:/var/tmp/Debian-Build/Result$ systemctl status apport
> ● apport.service - LSB: automatic crash report generation
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apport; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> 2016-11-05 / 00:29:30 ♒♒♒  ☹  => 3
>
> rrs at learner:/var/tmp/Debian-Build/Result$ systemctl enable apport
> apport.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
> Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable apport
> insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/apport, ../rc2.d/S01apport): Permission denied
> insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/apport, ../rc3.d/S01apport): Permission denied
> insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/apport, ../rc4.d/S01apport): Permission denied
> insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/apport, ../rc5.d/S01apport): Permission denied
> insserv: fopen(.depend.stop): Permission denied
> update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!
> 2016-11-05 / 00:29:35 ♒♒♒  ☹  => 1
>
> rrs at learner:/var/tmp/Debian-Build/Result$ sudo systemctl enable apport
> [sudo] password for rrs:
> apport.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
> Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable apport
> 2016-11-05 / 00:29:48 ♒♒♒  ☺
>
>
>
> As I understand from the logs above, systemctl gained root access
> through policykit. Then it realized that apport is not a native service.
> And then tried to invoke systemd-sysv-install. But that tool complained
> that it does not have the necessary privileges.

systemd-sysv-install is executed at the client side, not on the server
side. This is something that probably makes sense fixing upstream, as
units enabled/disabled via the bus are not synchronized with sysv
state.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler