The files are owned by root. I have not directly run any of the related tools as root (or indeed ever, that I can recall).
I can create a fresh set simply by removing the existing set and plugging in my phone: $ ls -lRa /tmp/root /tmp/root: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 ./ drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:05 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 .config/ /tmp/root/.config: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 libimobiledevice/ /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 16:31 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 964 Apr 4 16:31 HostCertificate.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1679 Apr 4 16:31 HostPrivateKey.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Apr 4 16:31 libimobiledevicerc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 Apr 4 16:31 RootCertificate.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Apr 4 16:31 RootPrivateKey.pem $ sudo rm -rf /tmp/root $ ls -lRa /tmp/root ls: cannot access /tmp/root: No such file or directory [ Here I plug in my phone ] $ ls -lRa /tmp/root /tmp/root: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ./ drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 .config/ /tmp/root/.config: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 libimobiledevice/ /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice: total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 5 09:07 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 964 Apr 5 09:07 HostCertificate.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Apr 5 09:07 HostPrivateKey.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Apr 5 09:07 libimobiledevicerc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 Apr 5 09:07 RootCertificate.pem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Apr 5 09:07 RootPrivateKey.pem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libimobiledevice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164263 Title: user-specific and possible private files are written to a global location Status in “libimobiledevice” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: $ dpkg -l libimobiledevic* | grep ^ii ii libimobiledevice3 1.1.4-1ubuntu6 amd64 Library for communicating with the iPhone and iPod Touch $ lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) I just noticed the oddly-named "/tmp/root" on my machine. $ tree -a /tmp/root /tmp/root └── .config └── libimobiledevice ├── HostCertificate.pem ├── HostPrivateKey.pem ├── libimobiledevicerc ├── RootCertificate.pem └── RootPrivateKey.pem Given the names of some of the files and the fact they probably relate to my phone, I suspect they should not live here, and certainly not be world-readable, as they currently are: $ sudo -u nobody sha256sum /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/* 35df7500851f8b77e97da0d19b656233fa70e23933426bcce9c1860ad30d854c /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/HostCertificate.pem 4a50a2982d2479d7f4cee23c41c93ba0d31bc97732d4d0accaa7e24d643003f1 /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/HostPrivateKey.pem 49bb734ce3a6ac0bf517738e8c13dfdd6281f66bd63e82355a1aa319fd94aa2c /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevicerc 0753ad5f801544c927af58fa3521784246fe510ee3d7870863db736481e5b278 /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/RootCertificate.pem aa1d53e80d7033e8ca27ea37b140a8bdb1ae6185371975360751377013131e03 /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/RootPrivateKey.pem There are some files in $HOME/.config/libimobiledevice with similar names that date from October 10th 2012. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libimobiledevice/+bug/1164263/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
