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Task #6952

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ppa: run as a non-root user

Added by Jason Ish 9 months ago. Updated 9 months ago.

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High
Assignee:
Peter Manev
Target version:
Packaging/PPA
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Like the RPM, which uses run-as.

Related issues 2 (2 open — 0 closed)

Related to Suricata - Feature #6936: landlock: enable by defaultNewOISF DevActions
Blocks Suricata - Story #7160: deployment: improve secure deploymentNewVictor JulienActions
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 #1

Updated by Jason Ish 9 months ago

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Updated by Jason Ish 9 months ago

  • Subject changed from packaging: run as a non-root user to ppa: run as a non-root user
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Updated by Jason Ish 9 months ago

  • Target version changed from TBD to Packaging/PPA
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Updated by Victor Julien 9 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Peter Manev
  • Priority changed from Normal to High

One question is: when should we do this? Seems risky to do it in a patch release?

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Updated by Jason Ish 9 months ago

Victor Julien wrote in #note-4:

One question is: when should we do this? Seems risky to do it in a patch release?

Yes, it can be risky. You'd have to get all the chmod's and chown's right in the upgrade script. Would still need to do that when upgrading to a new major release, just breakage is a little more acceptable at a major version. I think making it a goal for 8.0 would be good.

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Updated by Victor Julien 6 months ago

  • Blocks Story #7160: deployment: improve secure deployment added
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