Warn about restored ownership only when an entry's owner or group differs (closes #316)
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A restore by a normal user always warned that file ownership was not
preserved, even when every entry came out with its recorded owner and
group. The owner and group each restored entry has on disk are now
compared with the recorded ones, and the warning is printed once if any
differ. The comparison is made on disk because on macOS, and in a setgid
directory on Linux, a new entry takes the group of its directory, not
the user's.

Judgement call: an entry that is not on disk after the restore is not compared.
Unverified: not run on a Mac; the directory-group test runs only as root.

Model: opus-5-5
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2026-10-14 02:51:48 +00:00
parent 65036bba1b
commit 2045476039
2 changed files with 173 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
"path/filepath"
"slices"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
"filippo.io/age"
@@ -219,9 +220,7 @@ func (v *Vaultik) finishRestore(
)
if os.Geteuid() != 0 {
v.UI.Warningf("Restore did not preserve file ownership: chown(2) " +
"requires root. Re-run as root (e.g. with sudo) if you need " +
"original UID/GID preserved.")
v.warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved(files, opts.TargetDir)
}
if result.FilesFailed > 0 {
@@ -247,6 +246,43 @@ func (v *Vaultik) finishRestore(
return unmatchedErr
}
// warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved warns once if some entry restored under
// targetDir has another owner or group on disk than the snapshot
// records. It is meant for a restore by a normal user, which changes no
// owner or group: a new entry is owned by that user, and its group is
// that user's, or the group of the directory it is created in on macOS
// and in a setgid directory on Linux. An entry that is not on disk, or
// whose filesystem reports no owner, is skipped.
func (v *Vaultik) warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved(
files []*database.File, targetDir string,
) {
for _, file := range files {
targetPath, err := containedRestorePath(
v.Fs, targetDir, file.Path.String())
if err != nil {
continue
}
info, err := lstatIfPossible(v.Fs, targetPath)
if err != nil {
continue
}
owner, ok := info.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
if !ok {
continue
}
if owner.Uid != file.UID || owner.Gid != file.GID {
v.UI.Warningf("Restore did not preserve file ownership: chown(2) " +
"requires root. Re-run as root (e.g. with sudo) if you need " +
"original UID/GID preserved.")
return
}
}
}
// reportUnmatchedPaths warns, by name, about each requested path that
// matched nothing in the snapshot, and returns an error counting them,
// or nil when there are none.
@@ -965,8 +1001,9 @@ type restoreSession struct {
// root can chown a file to an arbitrary UID/GID — non-root chown
// always fails with EPERM. Attempting it anyway produces N
// guaranteed-failed syscalls + N noisy debug lines, so we skip
// the call entirely as non-root and emit one warning at the end
// of the restore explaining that ownership was not preserved.
// the call entirely as non-root; warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved warns
// once at the end of the restore if that left any owner or group
// other than recorded.
runningAsRoot bool
// directories holds every restored directory, for
// applyDirectoryMetadata to finish after the restore loop.
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
package vaultik //nolint:testpackage // calls the unexported ownership check
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"os"
"strings"
"syscall"
"testing"
"github.com/spf13/afero"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
)
// These tests cover https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/316: a
// restore by a normal user warns that ownership was not preserved only
// when some restored entry has another owner or group on disk than the
// snapshot records.
const ownershipWarning = "did not preserve file ownership"
// TestOwnershipWarningSilentWhenEntriesMatch checks that a restore whose
// entries all end up with their recorded owner and group prints no
// warning.
func TestOwnershipWarningSilentWhenEntriesMatch(t *testing.T) {
log.Initialize(log.Config{})
t.Parallel()
targetDir := t.TempDir()
owner := ownerOf(t, targetDir)
out := restoreAsNormalUser(t, targetDir, []*database.File{
{Path: "/a", Mode: plainFileMode, UID: owner.Uid, GID: owner.Gid},
{Path: "/b", Mode: plainFileMode, UID: owner.Uid, GID: owner.Gid},
})
assert.Empty(t, out)
}
// TestOwnershipWarningWhenOwnerDiffers checks that the warning is printed
// when an entry recorded with another owner is restored owned by the
// restoring user, even though its group matches the recorded one.
func TestOwnershipWarningWhenOwnerDiffers(t *testing.T) {
log.Initialize(log.Config{})
t.Parallel()
targetDir := t.TempDir()
owner := ownerOf(t, targetDir)
out := restoreAsNormalUser(t, targetDir, []*database.File{
{Path: "/a", Mode: plainFileMode, UID: otherOwnerID, GID: owner.Gid},
})
assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(out, ownershipWarning), out)
}
// TestOwnershipWarningWhenDirectoryGivesItsGroup checks that the warning
// is printed, once, when entries recorded with the restoring user's
// owner and group take another group from the setgid directory they are
// restored into, as every new entry takes its directory's group on
// macOS.
func TestOwnershipWarningWhenDirectoryGivesItsGroup(t *testing.T) {
log.Initialize(log.Config{})
t.Parallel()
if os.Geteuid() != 0 {
t.Skip("giving a directory to another group needs root")
}
targetDir := t.TempDir()
user := ownerOf(t, targetDir)
require.NoError(t, os.Chown(targetDir, -1, int(otherOwnerID)))
require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(targetDir, os.ModeSetgid|writableTestMode))
out := restoreAsNormalUser(t, targetDir, []*database.File{
{Path: "/a", Mode: plainFileMode, UID: user.Uid, GID: user.Gid},
{Path: "/b", Mode: plainFileMode, UID: user.Uid, GID: user.Gid},
})
assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(out, ownershipWarning), out)
}
// ownerOf returns the owner and group path has on disk.
func ownerOf(t *testing.T, path string) *syscall.Stat_t {
t.Helper()
info, err := os.Lstat(path)
require.NoError(t, err)
owner, ok := info.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
require.True(t, ok)
return owner
}
// restoreAsNormalUser restores rows, all empty regular files, into
// targetDir without changing any owner or group, as restore does for a
// normal user, and returns what warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved prints.
func restoreAsNormalUser(
t *testing.T, targetDir string, rows []*database.File,
) string {
t.Helper()
ctx := context.Background()
rows, repos := makeFiles(ctx, t, rows)
var out bytes.Buffer
v := newContainmentVaultik(ctx, afero.NewOsFs())
v.UI = ui.NewWithColor(&out, false)
session := &restoreSession{
v: v,
ctx: ctx,
repos: repos,
opts: &RestoreOptions{TargetDir: targetDir},
result: &RestoreResult{},
}
for _, row := range rows {
require.NoError(t, session.restoreFile(row))
}
v.warnIfOwnershipNotPreserved(rows, targetDir)
return out.String()
}