From: Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: 36508@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Mark H Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:21:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <262720830.30369.1618402863721@office.mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z0pgnqn.fsf@gnu.org>
> On 04/14/2021 12:32 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
> > Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
> > writes:
> >
> >> I recently encountered what is likely the same bug. The directory /var/lib/gdm
> >> had the correct permissions gdm:gdm, but all the files inside had something like
> >> 973:gdm
> >
> > The underlying problem here, which I've also experienced, is that if you
> > reconfigure your system with fewer users/groups, and then later add
> > those users/groups back, there is no guarantee that they will be
> > assigned the same UIDs and GIDs.
>
> Yes.
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-14 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-05 8:36 bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily replacing with SDDM ison
2021-04-13 13:24 ` bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-13 20:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-14 4:31 ` Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-15 18:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-14 10:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-14 12:21 ` Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2021-04-15 14:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 18:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-15 20:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 22:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-17 16:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-15 23:04 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 15:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 18:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-15 18:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-16 10:42 ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-17 16:28 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-09-18 12:22 ` bug#36508: [DRAFT PATCH] Stable allocation of uids, by keeping a historical mapping Maxime Devos
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