Package: dbconfig-common
Version: 1.8.11
Severity: important
I was trying to debug a problem i had with simba and ended up looking at
this code:
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###
### perform a few sanity checks on the data
###
# if dbserver is unset, that means localhost.
if [ -z "$dbc_dbserver" ]; then
# if the server is local, only allow connections from
localhost
dbc_dballow="localhost"
else
# otherwise, only tell the remote database to allow
from us
dbc_dballow=`hostname`
fi
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I see two bugs here.
The first one, and the one i am getting: if i tell dbserver to use "localhost"
dbc_dballow gets set to my hostname ("stark"). "Stark" hostname resolves to my
real ip address,
on which, by default, mysql does not listen to.
The second bug: if i would actually write the data to a remote server, that
machine may or may not
be in the same domain name as me (search field in /etc/resolv.conf), so it
should be "hostname -f", or even
better an ip address.
This is how i think the code should look like:
----
###
### perform a few sanity checks on the data
###
# if dbserver is unset, that means localhost.
if [ -z "$dbc_dbserver" ] || [ "$dbc_dbserver" = "localhost" ];
then
# if the server is local, only allow connections from
localhost
dbc_dballow="localhost"
else
# otherwise, only tell the remote database to allow
from us
dbc_dballow=`hostname -f`
fi
----
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ii pwgen 2.05-1 Automatic Password generation
ii ucf 2.007 Update Configuration File: preserv
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