Bug 1075

Summary:	when creating new encrypted home folder, Mageia sets root permissions
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	nikos papadopoulos <nikos769>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High	CC:	lists.jjorge
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	draklive-install	CVE:
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Description nikos papadopoulos 2011-04-30 18:10:01 CEST

Description of problem:
When I install Mageia, I create a new encrypted home partition for the new user...

 /home/My_Username

But the permissions of that folder are set to "root" and not to "My_Username".
As a result programs do not start, 
or you may not even be able to login in graphical environment 
(if it wasn't for icewm).

Changing the permissions solves the problem,
but you shouldn't expect new users to know that.  

If I remember correctly Mandriva 2011 had the same issue.

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Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-30 18:22:13 CEST

Could list the steps you used to create the encrypted home partition?

Priority: Normal => High
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 2 nikos papadopoulos 2011-05-01 20:31:02 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could list the steps you used to create the encrypted home partition?

During normal installation, with the Live version,
I created a new ancrypted partition,
and set mount point as /home/My_Username
(I did not mount the partition). 

At first boot of the system I created the user "My_Username".

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-01 23:23:44 CEST

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Could list the steps you used to create the encrypted home partition?
> 
> During normal installation, with the Live version,
> I created a new ancrypted partition,
> and set mount point as /home/My_Username

That's where the problem comes from, the mount point should be just '/home', then when you create the user after the first boot, drakuser will create /home/My_Username and set My_Username as the owner.

> (I did not mount the partition). 
> 
> At first boot of the system I created the user "My_Username".

Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => draklive-install

Comment 4 José Jorge 2011-10-10 21:05:18 CEST

Closed because this bug is old and has received no reply.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => lists.jjorge
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME