maas-test

maas-test leaves root-owned files in user's home dir

Bug #1267056 reported by Julian Edwards
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
maas-test
Fix Committed
High
Jeroen T. Vermeulen

Bug Description

ubuntu@maas:~$ ls -l /home/ubuntu/.config
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jan 8 20:02 maas-test

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lp:~jtv/maas-test/pidfiles-run
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maastest/proxyfixture.py (+13/-3)
maastest/tests/test_proxyfixture.py (+49/-30)
maastest/utils.py (+4/-0)
lp:~jtv/maas-test/var-cache
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Diff: 273 lines (+35/-35)
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docs/man/maas-test.8.rst (+6/-7)
maastest/kvmfixture.py (+7/-7)
maastest/proxyfixture.py (+1/-2)
maastest/report.py (+2/-3)
maastest/tests/test_kvmfixture.py (+6/-6)
maastest/utils.py (+7/-1)
man/maas-test.8 (+6/-7)
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lp:~jtv/maas-test/pkg-drop-xdg
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debian/control (+0/-1)
Superseded for merging into lp:maas-test
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debian/changelog (+7/-0)
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lp:~jtv/maas-test/var-log-maas-test
Julian Edwards (community): Approve
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docs/man/maas-test.8.rst (+6/-4)
maastest/proxyfixture.py (+20/-6)
maastest/report.py (+3/-3)
maastest/tests/test_proxyfixture.py (+14/-3)
maastest/utils.py (+3/-0)
man/maas-test.8 (+6/-4)
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in maas-test:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote :

Not sure we can do much about this if we're expecting to run maas-test as root, and yet sudo keeps using the original user's home directory.

Changed in maas-test:
assignee: nobody → Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I should add, this is a further problem:
$ ssh -i /home/ubuntu/.config/maas-test/vm_ssh_id_rsa ubuntu@192.168.122.199
Warning: Identity file /home/ubuntu/.config/maas-test/vm_ssh_id_rsa not accessible: Permission denied.
Permission denied (publickey).

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote :

How come that's not being run as root, if everything else is!?

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1267056] Re: maas-test leaves root-owned files in user's home dir

On 08/01/14 20:54, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> Not sure we can do much about this if we're expecting to run maas-test
> as root, and yet sudo keeps using the original user's home directory.

We can and should do something - chown it all, or drop privs when writing.

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

On 08/01/14 21:25, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> How come that's not being run as root, if everything else is!?

That's what it tells you to run when connecting manually for debug purposes.

Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)
Changed in maas-test:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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