Package: gkrellmd Version: 2.3.1-8 Severity: minor gkrellmd's postrm script calls deluser --remove-all-files gkrellmd which performs a recursive descent of the file tree, into all users home directories and all mounted NFS volumes. This became apparent because some (large and deep!) NFS volumes were exported with the root_squash option, so provoked
Purging configuration files for gkrellmd ... Looking for files to backup/remove ... Can't opendir(/home/martin/cluster/arm/doc): Permission denied at /usr/sbin/deluser line 304 Can't opendir(/home/martin/cluster/doc/Scritti): Permission denied at /usr/sbin/deluser line 304 ... I guess this is unintentional, since I don't think gkrellmd owns any files. It doesn't even own /etc/gkrellmd.conf (and rightly so). However, it is very slow, quite alarming for users and could conceivable silently delete files at random throughout the filesystem, for example if the gkrellm UID happened to correspond to some other system user on a mounted NFS volume. I'm not sure why the gkrellm user needs a home directory /home/gkrellm either... maybe this could be tweaked too. Cheers. Great utility -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
