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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Beowulf: who is chearing /run/user/<ID>?
Le 25/03/2023 à 14:17, Didier Kryn a écrit :
> Le 25/03/2023 à 09:07, aitor a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 24/3/23 21:42, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>> Good question. The user can't. It could be any of the programs
>>> involved in initializing a user session, like console-kit.
>>
>> It's elogind's function:
>>
>> static int user_mkdir_runtime_path(
>>     const char *runtime_path,
>>     uid_t uid,
>>     gid_t gid,
>>     uint64_t runtime_dir_size,
>>     uint64_t runtime_dir_inodes);
>>
>> in "user-runtime-dir.c":
>>
>> https://github.com/elogind/elogind/blob/main/src/login/user-runtime-dir.c
>>
>     Kudos for finding it.
>
>     Maybe unrelated but I got this message when upgrading today:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> multipath-tools (0.8.5-2+deb11u1) bullseye-security; urgency=high
>
>   This uploaded fixes CVE-2022-41973:
>   The fix involves switching from /dev/shm to systemd-tmpfiles.
>   The tmpfs is mounted to /run/multipath.
>
>   If you have previously accessed /dev/shm directly in your setup,
>   please update to the new path to facilitate this change.
>
>  -- Tobias Frost <tobi@???> Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:46:24 +0100
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     So we've now got yet another tentacle of Systemd sneaking in.
>

    What's amazing is there's nothing like multipath installed on my
system !