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

[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?

> At this point, I think it's a systemd issue.

That's possible. Let's loop in the systemd maintainers.