[systemd-devel] SystemD, Gnome permission problems

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 11.04.15 16:21, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 02:26:57PM +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:
> > dean <deanshannon3 at gmail.com> schrieb:
> > 
> > > Ok thanks for your prompt reply. It is my understanding the the
> > > house-keeping-plugin "cleans" /tmp so does it need access?
> That sounds wrong. First, systemd is already cleaning /tmp, so nothing
> good is going to come out of cleaning it twice. Second, doing cleanup
> as unprivileged user does not really work. If the user is not running,
> the cleanup is not going to happen, so on a multi-user system, when the
> user logs out, files would stay around infinetely. So cleanup from
> the graphical session is ineffective. More importantly, an unprivileged
> user cannot access files without bumping their access time stamp. So
> trying to do the cleanup as an unprivileged user actually interferes
> with systemd-tmpfiles (see df99a9ef5bb7a89b92 and 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183684).

Yes, I figully agree... GNOME shouldn't bother with this, it's
actively harmful to do this.

I file a bug now:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747737

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat