<div dir="ltr">It's worth noting that host-user-contaminated also triggers on pseudo bugs, which I've seen before. If we change the behavior, what user would files that pseudo loses track of entirely be owned by? Or perhaps some of pseudo's log messages should be made errors..<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Patrick Ohly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.ohly@intel.com" target="_blank">patrick.ohly@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 11:12 -0600, Seebs wrote:<br>
> > But I find mapping to root:root more attractive because it makes<br>
> > packaging simpler (less worries about accidentally copying the<br>
> > original uid) and the builds faster (no need to run the QA check).<br>
><br>
> Hmm. I think I would rather have the QA check, because if a file's<br>
> supposed to be non-root, and ends up root instead, that could cause<br>
> subtle problems, but we'd no longer have a way to *detect* those<br>
> problems.<br>
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</span>But that's not the kind of the problem detected by the QA check, is it?<br>
<br>
It warns when the owner of the file is the same as the user who did the<br>
build, but because root isn't (normally) used for building, files<br>
accidentally owned by root on the target won't trigger the warning.<br>
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