Package: davfs2
Version: 1.4.6-1ubuntu2
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze sid lenny patch

As seen in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/davfs2/+bug/459998

On Debian systems, distcc installs a user distccd with a home directory of '/'.
This user should be added to the default ignore_home option to allow users to
mount davfs shares in their home directories.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers maverick-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'),
(500, 'maverick')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages davfs2 depends on:
ii  adduser               3.112ubuntu1       add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32ubuntu3      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libneon27-gnutls      0.29.3-2           An HTTP and WebDAV client library

davfs2 recommends no packages.

davfs2 suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/davfs2/secrets [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/davfs2/secrets'

-- debconf information:
  davfs2/user_name: davfs2
* davfs2/suid_file: true
  davfs2/group_name: davfs2
  davfs2/new_group: true
  davfs2/non_root_users_confimed:
  davfs2/new_user: true
=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog	2011-03-26 00:07:33 +0000
+++ debian/changelog	2011-03-26 21:15:47 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+davfs2 (1.4.6-1ubuntu2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add distccd to ignore_home to allow mount under / in Debian & Ubuntu.
+
+ -- Michael R. Crusoe <[email protected]>  Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:08:55 -0700

=== modified file 'etc/davfs2.conf'
--- etc/davfs2.conf	2011-03-25 18:10:57 +0000
+++ etc/davfs2.conf	2011-03-26 21:15:47 +0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 # dav_user        davfs2            # system wide config file only
 # dav_group       davfs2            # system wide config file only
-# ignore_home                       # system wide config file only
+ignore_home       distccd	     # system wide config file only
 # kernel_fs       fuse
 # buf_size        16                 # KiByte
 

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