[libvirt] Problem configuring selective dropping of root

[Martin Kletzander]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 01:15:26PM +0200, Bjoern Walk wrote:
>Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com> [2019-07-10, 03:55PM +0200]:
>> Our Makefile specifies what to do on installation:
>>
>>  $(MKDIR_P) -m 0751 "$(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/lib/libvirt/qemu"
>>
>> so I guess this is a packaging issue.  No idea where/how the arch packaging
>> works, sorry.
>
>But the case that Stephan has where libvirtd does create the directories
>on startup is broken. I've ran into this problem myself, but forgot
>about it until now, when running libvirtd from the source tree with
>prefix /usr/local.
>
>It seems that when creating the directories in the driver
>initialization, at least the QEMU driver does not set the umask
>accordingly before, manginling the resulting permissions in the process.
>

If that is the case it should definitely be fixed in the code in order for it to
match the permissions in the makefile.

If nobody sends a patch for that in few days, remind me and I'll do that.

>Bjoern
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