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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 21:38, Ralph Ronnquist a écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 02:25:10PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> 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
>> !
> I think it's primarily a "target type" for the display mapper. It's
> mentioned ("documented") in "man dmsetup", and I believe there is a
> man page for it that comes with the multipath-tools package. Possibly
> it has use cases.
>

    I understand what you say as meaning the warning has leaked into a
somehow related package.

--     Didier