Debian packaging: explicitly allocate a group for the system user (#13593)

Otherwise the files of the synapse user are readable by the nobody user, which
is unsafe.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Behrmann <behrmann@physik.fu-berlin.de>
1.103.0-whithout-watcha
Jörg Behrmann 2 years ago committed by GitHub
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  1. 6
      debian/changelog
  2. 4
      debian/matrix-synapse-py3.postinst

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debian/changelog vendored

@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
matrix-synapse-py3 (1.66.0~rc1+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Allocate a group for the system user.
-- Jörg Behrmann <behrmann@physik.fu-berlin.de> Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:17:00 +0100
matrix-synapse-py3 (1.66.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
* New Synapse release 1.66.0rc1.

@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ EOF
/opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/lib/manage_debconf.pl update
if ! getent passwd $USER >/dev/null; then
adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --home /var/lib/matrix-synapse $USER
adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home /var/lib/matrix-synapse $USER
fi
for DIR in /var/lib/matrix-synapse /var/log/matrix-synapse /etc/matrix-synapse; do
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list --quiet $DIR >/dev/null; then
dpkg-statoverride --force --quiet --update --add $USER nogroup 0755 $DIR
dpkg-statoverride --force --quiet --update --add $USER "$(id -gn $USER)" 0755 $DIR
fi
done

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