On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 10:02 -0800, Christopher Head wrote:
> Hi all,
> Yesterday something surprised me. I updated my system and got the
> acct-{user,group}/lighttpd for the first time. Because lighttpd was running,
> package installation failed to change the home directory—fine, it printed an
> error message, I stopped the server, changed the home directory by hand, and
> started the server back up.
>
> What I didn’t realize was that it also, successfully, removed the lighttpd
> user from a couple of auxiliary groups I had put it in. It did this without
> telling me, without printing any messages. I only noticed because I happened
> to look at syslog and discovered that usermod or gpasswd or whatever it
> called had logged the changes. Presumably this has broken a service or two
> (nothing too critical) since now Lighttpd won’t be able to connect to SCGI
> sockets any more.I'm pretty sure user.eclass does print whatever changes it is doing. It isn't elog-ged though, I admit. This is probably worth fixing. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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