Regression: only session timeout and nologin are checked for timeoutd

[Valdisvi]

Binary package hint: timeoutd
Was tested on 10.04 (Lycid Lynx) Beta2.

This probably appeared after bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121960 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137250 was fixed. Before that time checking was OK.

To check this try these lines for e.g. for user "user", use configuration in /etc/timeouts:
Al0800-0900:*:user:*:NOLOGIN
Al:*:user:*:0:2:0:1

Log in as user, and run command:
watch -d 'timeoutd tv tty1; echo $?'

After 1 minute will get warning about logging off.

Though if overall day limit is set, e.g.
Al:*:user:*:0:0:2:1

Then status is always 0, and user is never logged off. So, my kids simply log in again, when they are logged off, if time is outside nologin range of time.

[Valdisvi (valdis-vitolins)]

When timeoutd.c (got from Ubuntu source repository) compiled with DEBUG flag, /var/log/debug shows:
...
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Reading today's wtmp entries.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Seek to end of wtmp
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Finished reading today's wtmp entries.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Time to check utmp for exceeded limits.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: User ieva or * not in config -> No restrictions. Not checking ieva on pts/2
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: User valdis or * not in config -> No restrictions. Not checking valdis on pts/2
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: NO xsession detected. device=pts/2 host=inks.lan
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Checking user tv group users tty pts/2.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Matched entry 5
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Idle=0 (max=0) Sess=3 (max=120) Daily=0 (max=120) warntime=1
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: NO xsession detected. device=pts/2 host=inks.lan
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: TTY pts/2: Discipline=TTY.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: User tv is active.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Freeing list of today's wtmp entries.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Finished freeing list of today's wtmp entries.
Apr 11 23:59:46 piano timeoutd[25824]: Finished checking utmp... sleeping for 1 minute.
...
Note, that Daily=0 all the time. Though couldn't catch how it is counted and where the bug is.

[Valdisvi (valdis-vitolins)]

What I found analyzing and testing timeoutd.c code from Ubuntu source repository is that,
when get_day_time(user) function is invoked, it doesn't follow into
while (login_p) and eventually while (logout_p) branches, so daytime variable is always 0.

[Atanas (atanasd)]

It didn't follow into the while (login_p) because read_wtmp() returned garbage.
It was attempting to read an always 32-bit value (ut.ut_time, actually ut.ut_tv.tv_sec) with an arch dependent (time_t *) pointer, which on 64-bit systems expects 64-bits of data. So half of the bits were some random junk and read_wtmp() was just skipping all past login session records.

The following patch appears to fix that:

--- timeoutd.c-old 2012-05-10 16:00:21.000000000 +0200
+++ timeoutd.c 2012-05-11 14:38:35.514021308 +0200
@@ -418,7 +418,8 @@
.
     while (fread(&ut, sizeof(struct utmp), 1, fp) == 1)
     {
- tm = localtime(&ut.ut_time);
+ time_t utmp_time = ut.ut_time;
+ tm = localtime(&utmp_time);
.
       if (tm->tm_year != now.tm_year || tm->tm_yday != now.tm_yday)
         break;

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Risto Mononen (risto-mononen-deactivatedaccount)]

wtmplist is always null when entering get_day_time(), line 777, when debugging with gdb. The daytime calculation does not work at all.

776 daytime = 0;
777 login_p = wtmplist;
778 while (login_p)

[Risto Mononen (risto-mononen-deactivatedaccount)]

The localtime - utmp_time comparison did not work. I will post a fix soon.

[Risto Mononen (risto-mononen-deactivatedaccount)]

Time comparison is now done with seconds rather than localtime (strings). At least max session and daily rule test cases worked ok. The code is in
https://github.com/risto-mononen/timeoutd.git

Sorry I don't know how to provide patches or bazaar branches (yet).

[Risto Mononen (risto-mononen-deactivatedaccount)]

make clean
make
sudo make install

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