Bug#859693: sysv-rc-conf: disabling auto-start of a systemd service appears successful but is not
Package: sysv-rc-conf
Version: 0.99-7
Severity: important
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To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: sysv-rc-conf: disabling a systemd service appears to work but the service
still runs
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:42:51 -0700
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Package: sysv-rc-conf
Version: 0.99-7
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I have lighttpd and sysv-rc-conf installed from the standard Jessie (currently
Stable) repos.
For security and other reasons, I used sysv-rc-conf to disable auto-starting of
lighttpd and some other services. The program's console UI "properly" cleared
the auto-start boxes for lighttpd (and other services) in all runlevels and
exited normally. Upon rebooting, I was very upset to learn that lighttpd had
auto-started anyway (seen with "service lighttpd status" which shows it as
executing with /lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service ).
Other services, those which start from /etc/init.d/* seem to respond correctly,
though.
Note that this is a real-world impact of related bug #791689
If users are led to believe that a service has been disabled when it is in fact
still running, the consequences could be serious from a security perspective,
not to mention that if updates are made to the unit files themselves, major
conflicts could emerge from duplicate services and so on.
Thank you very much.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sysv-rc-conf depends on:
ii libcurses-ui-perl 0.9609-1
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
sysv-rc-conf recommends no packages.
sysv-rc-conf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sysv-rc-conf depends on:
ii libcurses-ui-perl 0.9609-1
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
sysv-rc-conf recommends no packages.
sysv-rc-conf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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