Bug#329409: [devmapper] ownership and permissions breakage

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:55:28PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:27:59PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> > These bugs have gone far too long with no fix, and with absolutely no
> > justification for the wontfix tag.  They cause real breakage on live
> > Debian systems, and not fixing this bug is completely unacceptable.
> > Unless this is resolved shortly, I will be referring it to the
> > Technical Committee.
> > 
> > The ownership and permissions of disk block devices on a Debian system
> > are root:disk, 0660.  Anything other than that is gratuitously
> > different, and will break existing tools that require those settings.
> 
> Additionally, and more seriously, this breakage is also present in
> the sarge release, and I would very much like to see this fixed in
> sarge-proposed-updates.  The same patch to debian/rules should do
> the job.  Would there be any objection to my submitting this fix?

This is the patch for stable.  I would appreciate anyone who has a
stable system trying it out, since I only have a stable chroot to
check it builds OK.  Thanks.

diff -urN devmapper-1.01.00.old/debian/changelog devmapper-1.01.00/debian/changelog
--- devmapper-1.01.00.old/debian/changelog	2005-12-07 16:05:25.000000000 +0000
+++ devmapper-1.01.00/debian/changelog	2005-12-07 16:09:48.581393503 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+devmapper (2:1.01.00-4sarge1) stable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * LVM devices are created with root:disk ownership and 0660 permissions,
+    which is used by all other disk block devices.  This allows backups
+    of LVM logical volumes with tools such as amanda, which run as user
+    backup, a member of the disk group.
+
+ -- Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org>  Wed,  7 Dec 2005 16:08:57 +0000
+
 devmapper (2:1.01.00-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Build static libs.
diff -urN devmapper-1.01.00.old/debian/rules devmapper-1.01.00/debian/rules
--- devmapper-1.01.00.old/debian/rules	2005-12-07 16:05:25.000000000 +0000
+++ devmapper-1.01.00/debian/rules	2005-12-07 16:07:10.192240351 +0000
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
 		--mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man \
 		--infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \
 		--libdir=/lib --sbindir=/sbin \
-		--enable-compat                         
+		--enable-compat \
+		--with-device-uid=0 \
+		--with-device-gid=6 \
+		--with-device-mode=0660
 
 build: build-stamp
 build-stamp: config.status


Many thanks,
Roger

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