GNU bug report logs - #36508
GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily replacing with SDDM

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ison <ison <at> airmail.cc>

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 08:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 39527

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Brendan Tildesley <btild <at> mailbox.org>, 36508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36508: GDM files have incorrect owner after temporarily removing service
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:35:16 -0400

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> My preferred solution to this would be to unconditionally chown -R home
> directories upon activation

I also wonder if this could lead to security flaws similar to
CVE-2021-27851 <https://bugs.gnu.org/47229>, but perhaps 'chown' has
been written carefully to avoid such problems.

       Mark
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