Issues w/ timezones on gssftpd

[Philip Prindeville]

Howdy,

I'm running krb5-workstation-1.4.3-5.1 on FC5, and seeing:

Oct 30 09:09:14 mail ftpd[9129]: connection from 62.101.42.1 () at Mon Oct 30 09:09:14 2006
Oct 30 09:09:14 mail ftpd[9129]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM 62.101.42.1,  (IEUser@)
Oct 30 16:09:15 mail ftpd[9129]: get /pub/915resolution-0.5.2-3.src.rpm


I'm in the Mountain timezone (GMT -0700).  It looks like the ftpd
that is getting forked off and chroot()ing to ~ftp/ is either zapping
its environment or else losing access to some system file that gives
the timezone and time offset.

I haven't dug into glibc and what the /etc/localtime file does...  but
I'm guessing that this might need to be copied into the ~ftp/etc/
directory.  Is that correct?

Or can ftpd simple export the current timezone via the setenv(TZ, ...)
or tweaking the value of extern char *tzname[2]?

I'll stare at it for a while, and see if I can come up with a fix...  It
might be as simple as calling localtime() and discarding the return value
before calling chroot().

Thanks,

-Philip