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On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 10:02 -0800, Christopher Head wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Yesterday something surprised me. I updated my system and got the acct-{user,group}/lighttpd for the first time. Because lighttpd was running, package installation failed to change the home directory—fine, it printed an error message, I stopped the server, changed the home directory by hand, and started the server back up. |
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> What I didn’t realize was that it also, successfully, removed the lighttpd user from a couple of auxiliary groups I had put it in. It did this without telling me, without printing any messages. I only noticed because I happened to look at syslog and discovered that usermod or gpasswd or whatever it called had logged the changes. Presumably this has broken a service or two (nothing too critical) since now Lighttpd won’t be able to connect to SCGI sockets any more. |
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I'm pretty sure user.eclass does print whatever changes it is doing. It |
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isn't elog-ged though, I admit. This is probably worth fixing. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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