[PATCH] service: set User=root so that gio doesn't have to look into /etc/passwd

Submitted by Lubomir Rintel

Assigned to ModemManager bug user

Link to original bug (#104792)

Description

Created attachment 136963 [PATCH] service: set User=root so that gio doesn't have to look into /etc/passwd

GVfs' libgvfsdbus.so GIo module, when automatically loaded, attempts to discover if there's a session D-Bus instance to use. It tries real hard to get the socket name it would use -- in absence of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR it decides to make it up with user's home directory. When HOME is unset too, it just tries to figure it out by looking into /etc/passwd. Which upsets SELinux that would better not see us looking into it.

We trigger the load of the GIo modules, by using the GFile API to access the the ports in /dev. They're utterly uesless to us, but there doesn't seem to be a way to disable their load. Oh well.

For now, let's just ensure HOME is set and the problematic path in glib is not taken.

data/ModemManager.service.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Patch 136963, "[PATCH] service: set User=root so that gio doesn't have to look into /etc/passwd":
0001-service-set-User-root-so-that-gio-doesn-t-have-to-lo.patch

Version: 1.6