Bug#781176: byobu: fails to start when using shared NFS home

2015-08-30 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I don't have an NFS home directory on a Debian host, but I have run byobu on non-Debian systems with an NFS home directory and not had this problem. I also don't see any files in ~/.byobu that indicate state. No, there aren't. The information whether a session is running is determined by

Bug#781176: byobu: fails to start when using shared NFS home

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 22:57:51 -0400, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 18:21:20 +0100, Dominik George wrote: This fails at the point where it tries to get to its state in /dev/shm: /usr/lib/byobu/include/dirs:52: no matches found: /dev/shm/byobu-nik-* mkdir: cannot

Bug#781176: byobu: fails to start when using shared NFS home

2015-08-26 Thread Mike Miller
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 18:21:20 +0100, Dominik George wrote: The actual result is byobu wreaking havoc because it finds a running session in ~/.byobu and tries to join it. I don't have an NFS home directory on a Debian host, but I have run byobu on non-Debian

Bug#781176: byobu: fails to start when using shared NFS home

2015-03-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
control: severity -1 important On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Dominik George wrote: This bug is possibly security relevant because the intention of the script, namely separating user directories in /dev/shm, is entirely defeated. As a matter of lucky fact, / is not writable by regular users.

Bug#781176: byobu: fails to start when using shared NFS home

2015-03-25 Thread Dominik George
Package: byobu Version: 5.87-1 Severity: serious Justification: possible user security hole -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Byobu fails to behave well in an environment where multiple hosts share home directories through NFS. Doing the following provokes malicious behaviour: