On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 03:58:10PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > This problem exists at least in debian unstable, but it appears to go > back at least to 2012, when the debian-spamd user was introduced. > (most likely, the recursive chown was to make it easier to transition > existing setups that were already root-owned; those setups should now > be obsolete and we don't have to account for them any more).
Yes, the recursive chown was needed because we used to run everything as root. Realistically we probably could probably have just deleted the original contents of the directory and relied on sa-update and/or sa-compile to fix it, rather than chowning the contents. > It can be fixed simply by making this chown non-recursive: Yup. noah
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