Control: reassign 852697 daptup Control: retitle 852697 daptup: automatically starts gpg-agent in root user slice Control: affects 852697 + gnupg-agent
On Sun 2017-02-05 10:21:58 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> On 05/02/2017 10:08, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> Were you able to isolate what's launching the process?
>
> Yes I finally took the time to test all apt hooks and found the cause: it is
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/11daptup from package daptup.
>
> Should I reassign the bug?
I'm reassigning it now, sorry for the delay.
>> btw, that gpg-agent process is a systemd user service. when root fully
>> logs out of the machine, that user service should also terminate.
>> perhaps its running might cause you less worry if you know it will get
>> cleaned up at logout?
>
> It is more complicated than that: since I have cron-apt on my system, a new
> gpg-agent process is spawned automatically each night and does not go away.
so the underlying question is: why does daptup launch gpg-agent? I
don't think it should be doing anything with GnuPG secret key material.
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