Control: clone -1 -2
Control: close -2 0.8.8a+dfsg-6
Control: retitle -2 cacti must not change ownership of /var/log/cacti
Control: reassign -1 dbconfig-common 1.8.47+nmu1
Control: retitle -1 dbconfig-common must not change ownership of files
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: severity -2 serious

On 23-08-13 00:07, Romain Coltel wrote:
> The recent DSA about cacti arose a problem of owner/group being reset to
> the defaults (root/www-data). My configuration (using PHP-FPM with a
> specific group for cacti) needs /etc/cacti/debian.php to be
> group-assigned as "cacti" and not the default "www-data", but after
> upgrading, I found the group to be "www-data" again.

The /etc/cacti/debian.php file is managed by dbconfig-common, so
reassigning there.

> In the same idea, the directory /var/log/cacti/ also has its owner/group
> being reset even if cacti has to write in there.

This has been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-6.

> When upgrading, could it be possible not to change the owner/group?

It MUST NOT change the settings according to the debian policy 10.7.3,
so this should not have been a request, but an order ;).

Paul


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