Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:07:54 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: lists@cioccolatai.it
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] messagebus uid/gid and binaries
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:03:25 +0100
lists@cioccolatai.it wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:44:33PM +0100, lists@cioccolatai.it wrote:
> 
> > > # find /var /usr /sbin /lib -user messagebus -ls :
> > >   8065   40 -rwxr-xr-x   1 messagebus messagebus    38176 Oct 30 09:32 /usr/sbin/chroot
> > >   8067    8 -rwxr-xr-x   1 messagebus messagebus     5720 Oct 30 09:32 /usr/libexec/coreutils/libstdbuf.so
> > [..]
> > 
> > > apart from this, maybe is better to use the reserved "system" uid/gid with the
> > > -S flag in the adduser command?
> > > http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/commit/?id=5a7acc3218ecf44b19312ba9b5d4962828e9ec97
> > > 
> > > # id messagebus
> > > uid=1000(messagebus) gid=1000(messagebus) groups=1000(messagebus)
> 
> Sorry for the noise, I confirm that the two things are unrelated:
> 
> 1) some binaries are installed with owner uid/gid 1000 (maybe a
> bug/misconfig in the build system?)

likely bug. yes.

> 
> 2) dbus installation script creates an ordinary user (which by default
> get uid 1000 if you don't have any other regular user), not a system one

i fixed that in edge, but we might want fix it in v2.7 too.
 
> should I file two bug reports in the tracker?

That would be nice yes. Thanks!


> 
> as a note, by default the last system gid defined in the default
> /etc/groups is users (gid 100) which doesn't have a corrisponding uid
> 100 in /etc/passwd; any adduser -S creates a "desync" between passwd and
> groups (uid 100 gid 101, etc.) which is of course not a bug/problem, but
> is ..  "ugly" ..

Dont much we can do about that i think.

Thanks!

-nc


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