Package: systemd Version: 259-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Starting with systemd 258, it seems "non-system" users and groups are rejected for the OWNER= and GROUP= settings in udev rules. This breaks any installation that has rules set up for particular users to own particular devices, e.g. in my case a small list of USB device serial numbers with associated owners.
The change in behavior seems to have been accidentally introduced in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/f5cdf9515aceca2e91f9a33b74267e0cf5a5b7e8 and after being reported as bug, retroactively justified as policy in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/39056 As is sadly usual with systemd issues, the discussion is not particularly productive. Replacing OWNER="xyz" with RUN+="chown xyz %N" is being suggested (by other users) as workaround; there is no configuration option or otherwise that allows reenabling the broken OWNER= and GROUP= functionality. At the end of the day, it's a regression with no clear reasoning provided, and it seems to be affecting a bunch of people. I would request that f5cdf95 simply be reverted in the Debian package. If that's not viable, at least a 'grep OWNER= /etc/udev/rules.d' + warning in the package update scripts seems prudent as to not catch out people completely by surprise. Cheers, -equi -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'jammy-updates'), (300, 'jammy-security'), (300, 'jammy'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.17.12+ (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii libc6 2.42-11 ii libssl3t64 3.5.5-1 ii libsystemd-shared 259-1 ii libsystemd0 259-1 ii mount 2.41.3-3 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.16.2-2+b1 ii linux-sysctl-defaults 4.15 ii login 1:4.16.0-2+really2.41.3-3 ii ntpsec [time-daemon] 1.2.3+dfsg1-8 pn systemd-cryptsetup <none> Versions of packages systemd suggests: ii libtss2-tcti-device0t64 [libtss2-tcti-device0] 4.1.3-1.3 ii polkitd 127-1 pn systemd-boot <none> ii systemd-container 259-1 pn systemd-homed <none> ii systemd-repart 259-1 pn systemd-resolved <none> ii systemd-userdbd 259-1 Versions of packages systemd is related to: ii dbus-user-session 1.16.2-2+b1 pn dracut <none> it initramfs-tools 0.150 ii libnss-systemd 259-1 ii libpam-systemd 259-1 ii udev 259-1 -- no debconf information
