[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#360179: passwd: useradd creates home directories owned by root by default

[Christian Perrier]

Package: passwd
Severity: important

Quoting Dalibor Straka (dast at panelnet.cz):
> Hello,
> 
> I've found sth weird what could be a bug or a bad ;-) feature
> useradd.c is missing one line in 
>     static void create_home (void)
>         chown (user_home, user_id, user_gid);
> 
> It creates a directory always owned by root. Is that what we want?

root at mykerinos:/home# useradd -m krabs
root at mykerinos:/home# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 147 bubulle   bubulle   12288 2006-03-31 06:51 bubulle
drwx------   3 fetchmail root         38 2005-12-28 19:25 fetchmail
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftp       nogroup      24 2005-09-16 19:59 ftp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root      root         59 2006-03-31 06:56 krabs
drwxr-xr-x   2 patrick   patrick       6 2006-01-21 19:20 patrick
drwxr-xr-x   2 spongebob spongebob    57 2006-01-25 06:45 spongebob


Never noticed that as I use Debian's adduser but this is pretty much
weird to me, yes.

Let's officially open a bug (this is what you'd better have done but
thanks anyway for reporting). I even give this an important severity.

Dalibor, I'll assign you as bug submitter, as soon as I'll receive the
bug number, if you don't mind

Nicolas, Tomasz? Advices? Please better wait for the official bug
number and answer to it.



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