Package: ejabberd
Version: 18.06-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When ejabberd is started via systemd (i.e., via the ejabberd.service unit),
then epmd is likewise started via systemd (via the epmd.socket and epmd.service
units), and in this case the contents of /etc/default/ejabberd have no effect
on
the startup of epmd.

In particular, this means that the ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS parameter is ignored.
This is typically used to reduce the attack surface of epmd by telling it
to only listen on localhost.  As installed, epmd will listen on all interfaces.

This is to some degree an issue for the erlang-base package, which provides
epmd
and its systemd units and *should* provide a config option to restrict epmd to
listening on localhost only.  However, it is the ejabberd package that provides
the /etc/default/ejabberd file.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ejabberd depends on:
ii  adduser                        3.117
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]          1.5.69
ii  erlang-asn1                    1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-base [erlang-abi-17.0]  1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-crypto                  1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-inets                   1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-jiffy                   0.14.11+dfsg-3
ii  erlang-jose                    1.8.4-3
ii  erlang-lager                   3.6.4-2
ii  erlang-mnesia                  1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-odbc                    1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-os-mon                  1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-p1-cache-tab            1.0.14-1
ii  erlang-p1-eimp                 1.0.6-1
ii  erlang-p1-iconv                1.0.8-1
ii  erlang-p1-stringprep           1.0.12-1
ii  erlang-p1-tls                  1.0.23-2
ii  erlang-p1-utils                1.0.12-1
ii  erlang-p1-xml                  1.1.32-1
ii  erlang-p1-xmpp                 1.2.2-1
ii  erlang-p1-yaml                 1.0.15-1
ii  erlang-p1-zlib                 1.0.4-2
ii  erlang-public-key              1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-ssl                     1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-syntax-tools            1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  erlang-xmerl                   1:20.3.8.5+dfsg-1
ii  lsb-base                       9.20170808
ii  openssl                        1.1.0h-4
ii  ucf                            3.0038

ejabberd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ejabberd suggests:
ii  apparmor                         2.13-8
pn  apparmor-utils                   <none>
pn  ejabberd-contrib                 <none>
pn  erlang-luerl                     <none>
pn  erlang-p1-mysql                  <none>
pn  erlang-p1-oauth2                 <none>
pn  erlang-p1-pam                    <none>
pn  erlang-p1-pgsql                  <none>
pn  erlang-p1-sip                    <none>
pn  erlang-p1-sqlite3                <none>
pn  erlang-p1-stun                   <none>
pn  erlang-redis-client              <none>
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.10.8+dfsg-1
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.10.8+dfsg-1
pn  libunix-syslog-perl              <none>
pn  yamllint                         <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ejabberd/inetrc [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/ejabberd/inetrc'
/etc/ejabberd/modules.d/README.modules [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/etc/ejabberd/modules.d/README.modules'

-- debconf information:
  ejabberd/nodenamechanges:
  ejabberd/hostname: localhost
  ejabberd/erlangopts: -env ERL_CRASH_DUMP_BYTES 0
  ejabberd/nomatch:
  ejabberd/invalidhostname:
  ejabberd/user:
  ejabberd/invaliduser:
  ejabberd/invalidpreseed:

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