Package: debspawn Version: 0.6.0-1.1 Severity: normal Hi,
invoking debspawn build unstable foo.dsc runs the build after the /nonexistent directory has been created. I was able to pin that down to the call to execute_sdnspawn. It might well be possible that this is a bug in systemd-nspawn or systemd-run, but probably someone with more intimate knowledge of systemd-nspawn (you, the maintainer *grins*) has an easier job to debug this further. The builder user is created with /nonexistent as the home directory, and somewhere between the call to dsrun build-prepare and dsrun build-run one of the calls to systemd-nspawn -u builder creates the home directory of the user. This is bad because this disables the security effect of having an account's home directory point to a nonexistent directory, and also because adduser's autopkgtests fail in such an environment since adduser's autopkgtests test whether the special-case of /nonexistent (which adduser takes care to never create) is handled correctly. I have changed the call to adduser in dsrun and the setting of os.environ['HOME'] to /home/builder and was able to successfully run adduser's autopkgtest after doing a build --interactive. To make the changes effective, re-creation of the container is necessary (the account is only created once during container creation). It would be nice if the underlying bug in systemd could be fixed, declaring /nonexisting an exception, never creating it, or at least if the builder account in debspawn could be created with a different home directory to mitigate the painful results of systemd creating the directory. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.0.7-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debspawn depends on: ii debootstrap 1.0.128+nmu2 ii python3 3.10.6-1 ii python3-tomlkit 0.11.6-1 ii systemd-container 252-3 ii zstd 1.5.2+dfsg-1 Versions of packages debspawn recommends: ii build-essential 12.9 ii devscripts 2.22.2 Versions of packages debspawn suggests: ii sudo 1.9.11p3-2 -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debspawn/dsrun (from debspawn package) debsums: changed file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debspawn/osbase.py (from debspawn package)
