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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Brendan Tildesley <btild@mailbox.org>, 36508@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:35:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im4nief4.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z0pgnqn.fsf@gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> My preferred solution to this would be to unconditionally chown -R home
> directories upon activation

I also wonder if this could lead to security flaws similar to
CVE-2021-27851 <https://bugs.gnu.org/47229>, but perhaps 'chown' has
been written carefully to avoid such problems.

       Mark




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-15 18:40 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
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 [this message]
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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