Bug#1074789: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1074789: polkitd: setup uses non-failsafe manner of checking whether user/group exists

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.07.24 um 21:00 schrieb Lionel Élie Mamane:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 07:25:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>>>>> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.DynamicUser"}, 45) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> 
>> systemd should be listening on this socket
> 
> Well, on no less than four different Debian machines, it does not.
> 
>> $ sudo lsof /run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.DynamicUser
>> COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
>> systemd   1 root   28u  unix 0x0000000073ac41e2      0t0 8696
>> /run/systemd/userdb/io.systemd.DynamicUser type=STREAM (LISTEN)
> 
> Isn't that on a machine where systemd-userdb is installed maybe? The
> installation of that package triggers the systemd binary to listen?

No, systemd-userdb is not installed and as you can see from the above 
output it's actually systemd which listens on that socket.

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