Distrobox with Active-Directory user syntax seems broken?

akarypid · April 21, 2024, 2:47pm

I’m quite new to Bluefin and containerized applications, so not sure if this is a bug in distrobox itself, the Bluefin-DX’s configuration, or just something I’m doing wrong.

Basically I use sssd to join an AD realm and log in with those credentials. Therefore my username is of the format “user@my.domain.lan”. I used BoxBuddy to create a Fedora 39 container and installed Citrix Workspace app inside it. I used list-apps to see what I have (as I want to export it) and get:

$ distrobox-export --list-apps
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-selfservice.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-selfservice.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-wfica.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-wfica.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-new_store.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-new_store.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-configmgr.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-configmgr.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-conncenter.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-conncenter.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-receiver.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-receiver.desktop
grep: /run/host/home/myuser: No such file or directory
grep: my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-receiver_fido2.desktop: No such file or directory
                     | my.domain.lan/.local/share/applications/fedora-receiver_fido2.desktop

It sort of seems like something is getting confused by the @ character being present in my username (and therefore the path to the home directory).

Is there anyone using this successfully? Where would this bug be reported?

akarypid · April 21, 2024, 6:46pm

This is not specific to Bluefin. I created a KVM with Fedora and managed to reproduce the same issue, so I have submitted a bug report for it with distrobox here:

github.com/89luca89/distrobox

[Error] No such file or directory when path contains "at" (@) character

opened 06:42PM - 21 Apr 24 UTC

karypid

bug

**Describe the bug** My Linux box uses Active Directory for authentication. A…s a result, my home path has the @ character in it. This seems to confuse "distrobox-export". I can create and run containers, but using the export command to list applications causes problems. **To Reproduce** I have reproduced this with `podman` on Fedora 39 (I do not have docker to check if the problem exists there). You do not need to actually join and Active Directory domain to reproduce this, you just need to have the `@` character in the home directory name, which can also be achieved with the `--badname` parameter: - Create a user with the `@` character in the name. I did this as follows: `sudo useradd -m --badname sampleuser@withatchar` - Login as that user (in my example: `sampleuser@withatchar`) - Create a Fedora 39 box with `podman` (I used BoxBuddy to create it) - Enter the box and install an application - Run `distrobox-export` to export the application - Run `distrobox-export --list-apps` and observe the error in the output You need to have successfully exported an application so that when listing the apps, there is something to list. I installed Citrix Workspace App so the export was done with: ``` 📦[sampleuser@withatchar@f39 ~]$ distrobox-export --app Citrix Application Citrix successfully exported. OK! Citrix will appear in your applications list in a few seconds. ``` When listing apps is the output that demonstrates the bug is: ``` 📦[sampleuser@withatchar@f39 ~]$ distrobox-export --list-apps grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-selfservice.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-selfservice.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-wfica.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-wfica.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-new_store.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-new_store.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-configmgr.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-configmgr.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-conncenter.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-conncenter.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-receiver.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-receiver.desktop grep: /run/host/home/sampleuser: No such file or directory grep: withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-receiver_fido2.desktop: No such file or directory | withatchar/.local/share/applications/f39-receiver_fido2.desktop ``` **Expected behavior** The exported apps should be listed. **Logs** Attached podman logs **Desktop (please complete the following information):** - Are you using podman, docker or lilipod? `podman` - Which version or podman, docker or lilipod? `5.0.2` - Which version of distrobox? `1.7.1.0` - Which host distribution? `Fedora` - How did you install distrobox? `curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sudo sh` **Additional context** I think somewhere the code assumes that `@` is never in the username / directory-path of a user running distrobox. While this is not normal for a regular user, it is quite common for users logging into machines that authenticate with Active Directory as a server.

HikariKnight · April 21, 2024, 6:50pm

i believe there is a way to set sssd to just use a normal username for the home directory instead of user@domain.tld

akarypid · April 21, 2024, 6:58pm

Thanks, that’s definitely something worth looking into for me. Possibly I could do with something like /home/SHORT_DOMAIN/user

I suppose it’s still worth fixing the bug though, because this is the default way both Fedora and Ubuntu (to my knowledge) configure enterprise login. So that makes it likely that people like me (using enterprise login) may run into this.

HikariKnight · April 22, 2024, 9:54pm

this is from rhel7 but it would not surprise me if it is still relevant in terms of the domain homedir

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