The attached patch was written back in November for Debian bug #296729.
It allows preserving the sticky bit on directories when copying files
from the skeleton.
So far, I haven't got feedback on it.
I intend to now apply it and close the relevant Debian bug, no matter
it's applied upstream or not. But, Tomasz, can you give us an
indication whether you think it's OK for you...
Nicolas, your blessing or advice would help also...
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Goal: Keep sticky bit on dirs when copied with copy_tree. This should allo
to keep them when copying the skeleton directory in useradd
Fixes: #296729
Status wrt upstream: Forwarded but not applied yet
Index: shadow-4.0.13/libmisc/copydir.c
===================================================================
--- shadow-4.0.13.orig/libmisc/copydir.c 2005-10-27 15:02:29.379978864
+0200
+++ shadow-4.0.13/libmisc/copydir.c 2005-10-27 15:00:43.179123848 +0200
@@ -225,10 +225,11 @@
#ifdef WITH_SELINUX
selinux_file_context (dst_name);
#endif
- mkdir (dst_name, sb.st_mode & 0777);
+ mkdir (dst_name, sb.st_mode);
chown (dst_name,
uid == (uid_t) - 1 ? sb.st_uid : uid,
gid == (gid_t) - 1 ? sb.st_gid : gid);
+ chmod (dst_name, sb.st_mode);
if (copy_tree (src_name, dst_name, uid, gid)) {
err++;
