[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#732209: dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.

[Michael Biebl]

CCing the login maintainer, maybe he has some input on this matter.


Am 10.06.2016 um 16:03 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Control: tag -1 -moreinfo -unreproducible +wontfix
> 
> Vlad Orlov [2016-04-20 17:00 +0300]:
>> You can check [1] to get some info about libpam-systemd doing
>> something wrong here.
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882
> 
> This was fixed up to the extent possible in
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/baae0358f, i. e. 2.5 years
> ago.
> 
>> Also we had this issue for months in Linux Mint before Clement Lefebvre
>> made a patch [2] that fixed it. After the patched libpam-systemd had been
>> released for Mint, the problem was gone. That was it. No patching gksu,
>> no patching dconf.
> 
> That's a very optimistic. Sure, we could (partially) clean up after
> su's brokenness forever, but (1) this makes the fundamental problem
> only a bit smaller, but not go away, and (2) we would then have to
> maintain this wrong patch forever and taking the blame for it instead
> of fixing it at the root cause.
> 
> The problem is not "gone" in any sense of the word -- which of the
> leaked environment variables do you want libpam-systemd to unset in
> su's stead? XDG_RUNTIME_DIR? DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS?
> DESKTOP_SESSION? MAIL? XDG_CONFIG_DIRS? SSH_AUTH_SOCK? GPG_AGENT_INFO?
> 
> The fundamental problem is that it's not at all defined what "su"
> without -l actually wants to be: Switching to a different user like a
> suid program? Then you need the *entire* environment and not change a
> few selected variables like $HOME only. Or be like "login"? Then you
> need to clean the env like su -l or sudo. Both of the latter have
> well-defined behaviour, whereas the current "su" has no conceptual or
> consistent (or safe) behaviour at all.
> 
>> Ok, so maybe it's time to remove 'moreinfo' and 'unreproducible' tags?
> 
> Yes, I agree about that. But libpam-systemd is still neither the
> correct nor even a possible place to fix this.
> 
> AFAICS, the behaviour of "su" without -l either needs to be properly
> defined and fixed, or it should be completely deprecated, perhaps
> making it do the same thing as -l.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 


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