This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 2.77-0ubuntu2 --------------- transmission (2.77-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low
[ David Black ] * In the upstart job, setgid to debian-transmission. (LP: #1186470) -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:46:47 +0100 ** Changed in: transmission (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to transmission in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186470 Title: Does not drop root's group Status in “transmission” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I noticed that transmission-daemon was running with the groups of the tranmissions-daemon and root. To test this run the following: grep Groups: /proc/$thepid_of_tranmission_daemon/status ^ if it contains 0 then transmission daemon is running with an addition root group. ^ if the output contains only the gid of the tranmission-daemon group then there is no issue. tranmission-daemon has no *reason* to not drop root's group and every reason to *drop* it. Here is a patch for the upstart script that will fix this issue(diff against ubuntu 13.04's init script): --- transmission-daemon.conf.orig 2013-06-01 12:19:34.568301160 +1000 +++ transmission-daemon.conf 2013-06-01 12:10:17.088301160 +1000 @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ kill timeout 30 setuid debian-transmission +setgid debian-transmission respawn To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/1186470/+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
