On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:46:00PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 13, Robie Basak wrote:
>
> > This seems inconsistent to me. Where is the expectation that TMPDIR must
> > be unset if dropping privileges coming from? Obviously for users of
> Where is the expectation that $TMPDIR is writable
On Nov 13, Robie Basak wrote:
> This seems inconsistent to me. Where is the expectation that TMPDIR must
> be unset if dropping privileges coming from? Obviously for users of
Where is the expectation that $TMPDIR is writable by any user but the
current one?
I do not believe that it is expected
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> And I think that it would be wrong to have dpkg generally unset $TMPDIR,
> because if root sets it then it would be reasonable to expect that also
> dpkg and the maintainer scripts use it (as long as they are not dropping
>
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:58:47PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If the maintainer script is *dropping* privileges from root down to a
> system user, then I think the maintainer script is/should be responsible
> for doing that privilege drop in a way that works...
Agreed, but amongst various
On Nov 13, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I think you can both be right. The symptom here is a maintainer script
> failing, but if I'm understanding Marco's argument correctly, he's
> saying that the root cause is that when you switch between execution
> environments, not all of the environment
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 at 11:38:08 +, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:21:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Nov 12, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > > Instead of manually trying to manage TMPDIR env variable in various
> > > places, we should have a standardized way to run
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:21:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 12, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>
> > Instead of manually trying to manage TMPDIR env variable in various
> > places, we should have a standardized way to run maintainer scripts in
> > clean shell sessions that have all env
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