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[jira] Created: (TS-353) Allow numeric user notation for proxy.config.admin.user_id

Allow numeric user notation for proxy.config.admin.user_id
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                 Key: TS-353
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-353
             Project: Traffic Server
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Documentation
    Affects Versions: 2.1.1
            Reporter: Mladen Turk
            Assignee: Miles Libbey


New way of specifying the user_id has been added.

Currently the proxy.config.admin.user_id allows only specifying user names.
Since 2.1.1 if the user_id is prefixed with pound character (#) the remaining of the
string is considered to be numeric user id.

If the user_id equals '#-1' this would cause the trafficserver to not change the user
during startup.

Setting user_id to 'root' or to '#0' is now forbidden because of security reasons.
Trying to do so, will cause the traffic_server fatal failure.
However there are two ways to bypass that restriction.
The first one is by specifying -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE in CXXFLAGS during compilation
The second is setting user_id=#-1 and starting trafficserver under root account.

 

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[jira] Resolved: (TS-353) Allow numeric user notation for proxy.config.admin.user_id

Posted by "Miles Libbey (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-353?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Miles Libbey resolved TS-353.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> Allow numeric user notation for proxy.config.admin.user_id
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>
>                 Key: TS-353
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-353
>             Project: Traffic Server
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Documentation
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.1
>            Reporter: Mladen Turk
>            Assignee: Miles Libbey
>
> New way of specifying the user_id has been added.
> Currently the proxy.config.admin.user_id allows only specifying user names.
> Since 2.1.1 if the user_id is prefixed with pound character (#) the remaining of the
> string is considered to be numeric user id.
> If the user_id equals '#-1' this would cause the trafficserver to not change the user
> during startup.
> Setting user_id to 'root' or to '#0' is now forbidden because of security reasons.
> Trying to do so, will cause the traffic_server fatal failure.
> However there are two ways to bypass that restriction.
> The first one is by specifying -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE in CXXFLAGS during compilation
> The second is setting user_id=#-1 and starting trafficserver under root account.
>  

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