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bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing ser
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:24:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Brendan Tildesley <btild@mailbox.org> skribis:
>> On 04/14/2021 12:32 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
[...]
>> The patch Brendan posted LGTM (though I’m surprised the directory itself
>> can have the right UID/GID while files inside it don’t; perhaps this was
>> made possible by 2161820ebbbab62a5ce76c9101ebaec54dc61586, which chowns
>> the home directory unconditionally.)
>>
>> Note that there are other places, in addition to GDM, where we
>> forcefully reset the UID/GID of the home directory (e.g., for the
>> ‘knot-resolver’ service.)
>>
>> My preferred solution to this would be to unconditionally chown -R home
>> directories upon activation (for efficiency, it would be best if we
>> could do that if and only if the home directory itself has wrong
>> ownership). Thoughts?
>>
> I'm confused. It sounds like you're suggesting to add the very IF condition
> that my
> patch removes from %gdm-activation in order to fix the problem.
I’d like to understand why the ‘if’ the patch removes was problematic.
I think it relates to the commit above, but that needs more
investigation.
Ludo’.
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Brendan Tildesley, 2021/04/13
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/13
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Brendan Tildesley, 2021/04/14
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/14
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/16
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/17
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/04/16
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service, Maxime Devos, 2021/04/16