sudo doesn't execute a binary which got dependancy on SHLIBs

[kumasudh]

Hi,

I am facing issues while a executing a binary which has got the dependancy on the SHLIBs .

#chatr smsstatus
smsstatus:
shared executable
shared library dynamic path search:
SHLIB_PATH enabled first
embedded path disabled second Not Defined
shared library list:
dynamic /usr/lib/libpthread.1
dynamic /usr/lib/libntl.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libelf.2
dynamic ../../libs/OracleDM/SET_1/libwtc9.sl
dynamic ../../libs/OracleDM/SET_1/libclntsh.sl.9.0
dynamic /usr/lib/libstd.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libstream.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libCsup.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libm.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libcl.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libc.2
static /usr/lib/libdld.2
.....
So while executing this CLI with sudo
sudo smsstatus
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: ../../libs/OracleDM/SET_1/libclntsh.sl.9.0
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
Abort(coredump)

Knowing the factor that for security reasons, sudo will exclude the env variables like LD_* ,SHLIB_PATH etc while executing the commands.

Could somebody help me to provide a way to have env variable SHLIB_PATH in the shell session where sudo executes "smsstatus" CLI.

Thanks and Regards

[Asif Sharif]

Hi kumasudh,

see the below thread.
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=10911

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Jeeshan]

Hi

SHLIB_PATH is an enviorenmental variable specially declared in oracle or any other users profile specially related to oracle's library usage.

sudo will execute the program with permission of that owner. suppose if smastatus program owner is xyz and if abc want to execute that, it will run like that

$abc>sudo -u xyz smsstatus

user abc will automatically load the environment of xyz.

if you don't want to do that, you just set the environement variable of SHLIB_PATH of abc user with proper permission.

[Mustafa Gulercan]

Hi ;
could you try to reinstall sudo from this link;
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1111

Hp tested it and it will propably work

regards,
mustafa

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Two possible solutions:

1.)
Don't make sudo execute the smsstatus binary directly: instead, have sudo execute a script which sets all the necessary environment variables to correct values and then executes the smsstatus binary.

2.)
"man sudoers" will tell you about env_keep option, which can be used to allow sudo to preserve some environment variables.

NOTE: allowing the LD_* or SHLIB_PATH variables to pass through sudo is a huge security risk, as a malicious person can use these variables together with sudo to run his/her malicious code with root privileges.

MK

[kumasudh]

Hi Matti,

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It really helped.

Regards
kumasudh