[Touch-packages] [Bug 1923262] Re: backup /etc/passwd- file should be mode 0600

2021-04-12 Thread Alexander Scheel
** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shadow in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1923262 Title: backup /etc/passwd- file should be mode

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1923262] Re: backup /etc/passwd- file should be mode 0600

2021-04-12 Thread Alexander Scheel
I largely agree but I'd like to point out a little bit of nuance. Even on modern (e.g., 20.04) systems using shadow by default, global read/write access to /etc/passwd{,-} _can_ (in some scenarios) still problematic. A system will still function fine even if /etc/passwd has 000 permissions (+/-

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1472288] Re: missing attributes in /etc/os-release

2021-04-06 Thread Alexander Scheel
This is a debdiff for Hirsute, applicable against 11ubuntu18 to add CPE_NAME. I ended up quoting it to follow what Fedora does but from what I (and ShellCheck) can tell from testing the resulting .deb with bash and sh, it doesn't strictly need to be quoted. Per discussion with Steve Beattie