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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2023-02-07 23:03:33 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 408.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20230207230333-5halrp7943pgb3w1
Server: Bug fix: Stagger checker runs when creating clients

* mandos (Client.enable()): Do not set self.expires here; move it to
  "init_checker".
  (Client.init_checker()): Take new "randomize_start" argument.  If
  True, randomize delay before starting checker.  Also, do not start
  checker right now, but instead extend expire time so that the
  scheduled checker always has time to run.
  (Checker.start_checker): Take new "start_was_randomized" argument.
  If True, reset scheduled checker runs to be 'interval' apart,
  instead of using the initial delay.  (Bug fix)
  (main): On startup, pass argument randomize_start=True to
  client.init_checker() when initizlizing checkers for all enabled
  clients.

Reported-by: Louis Charreau <Louis.Charreau@vadesecure.com>
Suggested-by: Louis Charreau <Louis.Charreau@vadesecure.com>
Fixes: 1200 ("Server: Stagger checker runs when creating clients")

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-24">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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          <para>
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            This environment variable will be assumed to contain the
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            directory containing any helper executables.  The use and
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            nature of these helper executables, if any, is
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            purposefully not documented.
 
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            nature of these helper executables, if any, is purposely
 
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            not documented.
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      </varlistentry>
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  <refsect1 id="security">
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    <title>SECURITY</title>
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    <para>
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      This program is set-uid to root, but will switch back to the
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      original (and presumably non-privileged) user and group after
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      bringing up the network interface.
 
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      This program assumes that it is set-uid to root, and will switch
 
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      group after bringing up the network interface.
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      To use this program for its intended purpose (see <xref
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          <ulink url="http://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="https://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
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