[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#771628: alsa-base: Please add ProtectSystem=yes to systemd service file

Micah Anderson micah at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 03:50:07 UTC 2014


Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.27+1
Severity: wishlist

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Hello,

If you add the option ProtectSystem=yes to the service file, then the
daemon will not have the ability to write to /usr.

There is no reason why it needs to write there, so enabling this
option should not cause any problems.

This option is one of the systemd security features for systemd
service files that was detailed in a talk[0] given by Lennart which
details various security features you can enable in your package's
service files.

micah

[0] http://ftp.nluug.nl/video/nluug/2014-11-20_nj14/zaal-2/5_Lennart_Poettering_-_Systemd.webm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.17.22
ii  kmod  18-3

alsa-base recommends no packages.

alsa-base suggests no packages.

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