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Package: gkrellmd
Version: 2.3.1-8
Severity: minor
gkrellmd's postrm script calls
deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd
which performs a recursive descent of the file tree, into all users
home directories and all mounted NFS volumes. This became apparent
because some (large and deep!) NFS volumes were exported with the
root_squash option, so provoked
Purging configuration files for gkrellmd ...
Looking for files to backup/remove ...
Can't opendir(/home/martin/cluster/arm/doc): Permission denied
at /usr/sbin/deluser line 304
Can't opendir(/home/martin/cluster/doc/Scritti): Permission denied
at /usr/sbin/deluser line 304
...
I guess this is unintentional, since I don't think gkrellmd owns any
files. It doesn't even own /etc/gkrellmd.conf (and rightly so).
However, it is very slow, quite alarming for users and could
conceivable silently delete files at random throughout the filesystem,
for example if the gkrellm UID happened to correspond to some other
system user on a mounted NFS volume.
I'm not sure why the gkrellm user needs a home directory /home/gkrellm
either... maybe this could be tweaked too.
Cheers. Great utility
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Version: 2.3.2-1
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 15:23, Martin Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> gkrellmd's postrm script calls
> deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd
Since the package version above, the script uses "--system".
Regards,
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