On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently, a user reported having his root account deleted after installing
> the port dbus (Ticket #45737).
> I do not see how it is possible, but I though that we can not risk such a
> catastrophic result for anyone else.
> Can anyone image how such a situation could come about?
unset -nocomplain startup_root
if { [variant_isset no_root] } {
set dbus_user ${install.user}
set dbus_group ${install.group}
[...]
}
add_users ${dbus_user} group=${dbus_group} realname=Message\ Bus
What happens here if install.user is root?
vq
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