Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
Anything new on that? It seems fresh installations nowadays get a proper homedir, however all legacy installations are still left out. e.g. nfs-common.postinst shows how old installations can be easily updated. Cheers, Chris
Bug#665917: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:20:27AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Hi. Currently the maintainer scripts set the homedir for this package to be in /home/username. As this is system user, I'd say this is rather bad style. Which script are you talking about? I do not see the path mentioned in any of them. Could you please move this to something more reasonable and also change it for upgraded systems? I don't see how maintair scripts need to change anything for the upgrade in that case, either they do the right thing or don't. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#665917: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
Am 27.03.2012 09:04, schrieb Kurt Roeckx: Which script are you talking about? I do not see the path mentioned in any of them. /var/lib/dpkg/info$ grep adduser ntp* ntp.postinst: adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home ntp While this doesn't create a directory, it sets the home dir to the default /home/user in /etc/passwd: $ grep ntp /etc/passwd ntp:x:102:104::/home/ntp:/bin/false I don't see how maintair scripts need to change anything for the upgrade in that case, either they do the right thing or don't. Well,.. obviously they did it not cleanly,.. to the usual way is to clean up on upgrades, otherwise users will stay with the old settings forever. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#665917: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
On tis, 2012-03-27 at 14:15 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Am 27.03.2012 09:04, schrieb Kurt Roeckx: Which script are you talking about? I do not see the path mentioned in any of them. /var/lib/dpkg/info$ grep adduser ntp* ntp.postinst: adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntp --no-create-home ntp While this doesn't create a directory, it sets the home dir to the default /home/user in /etc/passwd: $ grep ntp /etc/passwd ntp:x:102:104::/home/ntp:/bin/false We could set it to /var/lib/ntp instead, but changing it on upgrade sounds a bit hairy. I think it's also kind of a bug in adduser that it creates system users with a home directory under /home. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#665917: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 23:14 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: We could set it to /var/lib/ntp instead Sounds good to me. but changing it on upgrade sounds a bit hairy. Well if it's really a hassle,.. let it be,... But IMHO it shouldn't be too much of a problem: usermod -d /var/lib/ntp in the configure step. The code can be dropped in wheezy+1 one,... cause only direct upgrades are officially supported. Not to costly, and every user get's the current state :) I think it's also kind of a bug in adduser that it creates system users with a home directory under /home. Guess you're right,... the question is what other safe value could it use? Then only reasonable I can think of is something like /nonexistent/ as a fallback when nothing is provided. Falling back to the current /home/system-user is ugly, but at least it should be safe. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Bug#665917: ntp: don't use /home/ for the users homedir
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Hi. Currently the maintainer scripts set the homedir for this package to be in /home/username. As this is system user, I'd say this is rather bad style. Could you please move this to something more reasonable and also change it for upgraded systems? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
