Re: poorly worded error message

[Mark Burgess]

Thanks, good idea

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> When running cfagent as 'usera' on a host, with a control: line
> including 'access = ( root )', I get the following output:
> 
> [snip]
> Negated Classes = ( )
> 
> Installable classes = ( no_default_route Restart )
> 
> Global expiry time for locks: 30 minutes
> 
> Global anti-spam elapse time: 1 minutes
> 
> Extensions which should not be directories = ( )
> Suspicious filenames to be warned about = ( )
> cfengine:xxxx:/tmp/dirs/usera/.cfagent/inputs/globals/restartcfe.conf:Ac
> cess denied
> 
> At this point CFE aborts. This is occuring inside the
> CheckSystemVariables function in cfagent.c. The error message is being
> triggered by the 'import' action, but it has nothing to do with
> importing restartcfe.conf.  The error message should be updated to say
> something like 'Access denied: user not listed in access line' to
> indicate the real nature of the problem instead of causing wild goose
> chases about the privileges set on restartcfe.conf.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Jason Martin
> 
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