[Python-apps-team] Bug#832758: irkerd.service runs irkerd as root (should run as user "irker")

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Jul 28 14:43:31 UTC 2016


Package: irker
Version: 2.18+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

When systemd tries to launch irkerd, it runs it as root.

This is a Bad Idea.

Please add a User=irker line to the [Service] section of
irkerd.service.

Regards,

        --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)



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