Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users
Hi, I just noticed the symptoms of this on my own system. Does every installation affected by this bug need manual intervention to undo the automatically-enabled user unit, or should the fixed package do that itself? If the former, for those not familiar (myself included), could you suggest the appropriate incantation to remove the user unit? Thanks, Brendon
Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users
On 2021-12-19 at 14:22:03, Alexandre Viau (alexan...@alexandreviau.net) wrote: > Ah, it was dh-systemd enabling the user unit by default. > > Since the user unit is not the only way to use syncthing, I would say > that disabling it by default is a better choice. The other thing is that I'd say it only makes sense to run the Syncthing user service for real users, not for system user accounts (e.g. the ones used for cron and the likes). Francois -- https://fmarier.org/
Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users
On 2021-12-19 at 13:12:58, Alexandre Viau (av...@debian.org) wrote: > Can you please show us the output of: > - $ ls -l /etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/ I do have Syncthing in there: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 22 2019 dunst.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/dunst.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 27 2020 pipewire.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Aug 23 2019 pulseaudio.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 3 00:32 syncthing.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/syncthing.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Sep 3 11:44 tracker-extract-3.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-extract-3.service I don't remember manually enabling this myself though. It's possible I did and forgot, but I suspect it happened when I upgraded the package a few weeks ago. Francois -- https://fmarier.org/
Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users
Hello/Salut Francois, Could it be that you globally enabled the syncthing systemd user unit? Can you please show us the output of: - $ ls -l /etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/ Thanks, -- Alexandre Viau av...@debian.org
Bug#1001147: syncthing.service appears to be enabled for all users
Package: syncthing Version: 1.18.0~ds1-1 Severity: normal I've noticed a couple of odd things in my logs since a recent SyncThing upgrade. The first one is that a new SyncThing device I can't identify is now being advertised from my laptop. The ID I see being advertised is not the one I use on that device. Secondly, I see the following in my logs: Dec 4 07:40:13 akranes syncthing[1962943]: WARNING: Failure on home directory: mkdir /bin/.config: permission denied which suggests that SyncThing is trying to run with one of the system user accounts that have /bin/ as their homedir: $ grep :/bin: /etc/passwd bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin Finally, I found Sync directories in odd places: /var/lib/gdm3/Sync /var/spool/email-reminder/Sync I'm not an expert in systemd service files, but this suggests to me that SyncThing is being run from many user accounts which really shouldn't run it. They should especially not creating new directories and start sharing them on the network. Francois -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages syncthing depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libc62.32-4 syncthing recommends no packages. syncthing suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
