Bug#852696: gvfs-fuse: automatically starts gvfsd and gvfsd-fuse in root user slice

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: gvfs-fuse
Version: 1.30.3-1
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

I usually remotely log in (via ssh) as root on a system where gvfs packages are installed and I noticed that a gvfsd process and a gvfsd-fuse process are created for the root user:

# systemd-cgls
Control group /:
-.slice
├─user.slice
│ └─user-0.slice
│   ├─user at 0.service
│   │ ├─dbus.service
│   │ │ └─16957 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslo
│   │ ├─gpg-agent.service
│   │ │ └─15353 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --supervised
│   │ ├─init.scope
│   │ │ ├─31495 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
│   │ │ └─31497 (sd-pam)
│   │ └─gvfs-daemon.service
│   │   ├─17040 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
│   │   └─17045 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/0/gvfs -f -o big_writes

Those processes are of no use to the root user and therefore the system would be better without them.  Would it be possible to prevent the creation of those processes?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gvfs-fuse depends on:
ii  fuse          2.9.7-1
ii  gvfs          1.30.3-1
ii  libc6         2.24-9
ii  libfuse2      2.9.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.51.0-2

gvfs-fuse recommends no packages.

gvfs-fuse suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Laurent.