X2Go Bug report logs - #1229
x2go rejects usernames starting with digits, incorrectly

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Package: x2goserver; Maintainer for x2goserver is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goserver is src:x2goserver.

Reported by: "Norman Gray" <gray@nxg.name>

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: pending

Found in version 4.0.1.20

Fixed in version 4.0.1.21

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From: "Norman Gray" <gray@nxg.name>
To: submit@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: x2go rejects usernames starting with digits, incorrectly
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:51:27 +0100
Package: x2goserver
Version: 4.0.1.20

At present, x2goserver sanitises usernames with a regexp in x2goutils.pm 
and in x2gosqlitewrapper.pl (same in both places).  That's:

    if ($string =~ 
/^([a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.\@]{0,47}[\$]?)\-([\d]{2,4})\-([\d]{9,12})\_[a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.]*\_dp[\d]{1,2}$/) 
{

A username of, eg, '1234567x' fails this test, and the x2go session 
fails to start.  This is a valid username on CentOS (which is the OS I'm 
using in this case, but CentOS is far from unique here), therefore such 
a username should _not_ be rejected.

I have verified that the above code is indeed the source of my login 
problems, since if I hack the two files above, to have the regexp start 
with [a-zA-Z0-9\_], then my users can log in without difficulty.  This 
hacking is obviously not a great solution.

An alternative test would be to use getpwent(3).  This would verify that 
the proffered username is valid, absolutely authoritatively, without 
making any assumptions about what is or isn't valid on the current 
platform.  x2go should not second-guess getpwent(3).

In Perl terms, the above test could be replace with:

    $uid = getpwnam($string);
    if ($uid) {
        # username is OK
    } else {
        # user $string does not exist
    }

Note that the test may in fact be redundant, since if this code is being 
run, then the corresponding user has already logged on to the system, so 
that the username has already been verified as valid and existing.

Other observations:

  * If the system (or specifically getpwent) regards a given username 
as valid, then it will be valid for calls to other local library calls.  
If this were not the case, that would be a major system bug on that 
platform.

  * POSIX/Single Unix says of the username simply "To be portable 
across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2008, the value is composed of 
characters from the portable filename character set. The <hyphen-minus> 
character should not be used as the first character of a portable user 
name." (see <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/>, 
paragraph 3.437)

  * The Debian useradd(8) page recommends something matching 
/^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$/, but goes on to say "On Debian, the only 
constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash ('-') nor 
contain a colon (':') or a whitespace (space: ' ', end of line: '\n', 
tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a slash ('/') may break the 
default algorithm for the definition of the user's home directory." (see 
eg <https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/8/useradd/>)

  * The corresponding RedHat/CentOS manpage doesn't even include that, 
and instead says only "Usernames may only be up to 32 characters long."  
FreeBSD is similarly laid-back about the username.

  * The GNU Coreutils manual 
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#Disambiguating-names-and-IDs> 
which explicitly acknowledges that an all-digits username is legitimate, 
and describes how the coreutils resolve the potential ambiguity.

  * It may have been true in the past that some unixes objected to 
all-digits usernames.  I personally am not aware of any current unixes 
which do so.

  * It is not an option to change the usernames ('1234567x') on this 
system, since they are widely deployed in other systems.  Also, they're 
valid username as far as the local system is concerned.

This issue was discussed on the user list a little while ago 
<http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/2015-April/003161.html> 
(that's what gave me the aha!).  There, Mihai Moldovan said "That's 
non-standard-compliant and you're basically on your own when doing 
"funky stuff"."  To be clear, I agree such usernames are less than 
ideal, but I don't think they count as funky or non-compliant.

The issue was discussed on the x2go-dev list more recently, starting at 
<http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2017-October/012140.html>

Best wishes,

Norman


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From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
To: Norman Gray <gray@nxg.name>, 1229@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] x2go rejects usernames starting with digits, incorrectly
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:09:11 +0200
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On 10/27/2017 06:51 PM, Norman Gray wrote:
> At present, x2goserver sanitises usernames with a regexp in x2goutils.pm 
> and in x2gosqlitewrapper.pl (same in both places). [...]

Just to make it clear - we're not really "validating user names". I couldn't
care less about the user name as such - it's the system's responsibility to deal
with user names and if users managed to login, we can assume the user name is
valid, like you've already written on the -dev mailing list and here.

What we really do in this part of code is validating a session ID, which happens
to contain a user name. Sadly, as such, what we see as a user name must be
correctly represented in order to check the session ID.

Generally, a session ID should look like that:
  <username>-<DISPLAY number>-<UNIX timestamp denoting session creation
time>_st<string representation of session type>_dp<DISPLAY bit depth>

We want to make sure that this ID is valid and, further, that specific parts can
be extracted from it.


> A username of, eg, '1234567x' fails this test, and the x2go session 
> fails to start.  This is a valid username on CentOS (which is the OS I'm 
> using in this case, but CentOS is far from unique here), therefore such 
> a username should _not_ be rejected.

Okay, so we want to accept numeric and user names starting with digits.


> An alternative test would be to use getpwent(3).  This would verify that 
> the proffered username is valid, absolutely authoritatively, without 
> making any assumptions about what is or isn't valid on the current 
> platform.  x2go should not second-guess getpwent(3).

This is probably appropriate for other checks, yes, if we really need to make
sure that a user name is valid on the system.


> Note that the test may in fact be redundant, since if this code is being 
> run, then the corresponding user has already logged on to the system, so 
> that the username has already been verified as valid and existing.

In theory it's redundant. But there is a possibility that we are reading garbage
data, where ever that might come from. Any bug (including our scripts messing up
splitting up something, or inserting something invalid into the database and
reading it again later) could trigger such a situation, so IMHO validation of
input strings is really not redundant.


>    * POSIX/Single Unix says of the username simply "To be portable 
> across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2008, the value is composed of 
> characters from the portable filename character set. The <hyphen-minus> 
> character should not be used as the first character of a portable user 
> name." (see <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/>, 
> paragraph 3.437)

So, hyphen is prohibited as the first character. Also, SUS recommends (but does
not enforce) using the portable filename character set[0] only for portability,
which is restricted to [A-Za-z0-9._-]. Specifically, this does not include any
special characters like umlauts, accented characters or generally any other
Unicode character.


>    * The Debian useradd(8) page recommends something matching 
> /^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$/, but goes on to say "On Debian, the only 
> constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash ('-') nor 
> contain a colon (':') or a whitespace (space: ' ', end of line: '\n', 
> tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a slash ('/') may break the 
> default algorithm for the definition of the user's home directory." (see 
> eg <https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/8/useradd/>)

This is a bit stricter than the SUS definition (ignoring the portability
recommendation). If taken at face value, Debian allows any Unicode character but
the restricted ones. Interestingly, the recommended matching regexp doesn't
include uppercase characters and, arguably more interestingly, doesn't allow a
user name to start with a digit (which would be problematic for you).


>    * The corresponding RedHat/CentOS manpage doesn't even include that, 
> and instead says only "Usernames may only be up to 32 characters long."  
> FreeBSD is similarly laid-back about the username.

This is interesting as well, since it's the first document that mentions a
maximum length. If interpreted directly, the previous documents did not restrict
the length (unless you haven't pasted some information relating to the string
length).

Currently, we seem to limit the user name to a length of at least one to 48
characters. Not sure where this limit is coming from, but it's higher than what
RHEL/CentOS documents. Specifically, if the 32 characters limit is a hard one,
parsing longer user names than this successfully would be invalid. Then again,
I'm not inclined to implement per-system limits, so I'd rather go with the most
restricted set...


In the current code, for some reason we are also allowing the characters $ and
@, if they are not the first characters. I'm not sure why that is, but allowing
@ might be a consequence of multi-server support (i.e., that @ acts a separator
for the host name.) Also, a trailing character of $ is allowed, which ramps up
the section to 49 characters in total.

Going through the history, I can see that previously, a 32 (or 33) character
limit was enforced, but changed to 48 (or 49) as part of this bug report:
https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574


The @ character indeed has been added to allow email-address-like user names as
part of https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573


Allowing $ as trailing characters has been part from the start, though I
honestly don't understand why.


So, with all that, the most unrestrained option would be to use /^[^-].*/ for
the user name part.

If taking the SUS recommendation for portable user names into account, that
would change to /^[A-Za-z0-9._][A-Za-z0-9._-]*/.

If also applying the RHEL restriction of 32 characters, we'd come out at
/^[A-Za-z0-9._][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,31}/.


My initial idea was to just use the last regexp, but this would break setups
with user@domain user names or user names longer than 32 characters.

In theory, /^[A-Za-z0-9._][A-Za-z0-9._-@]*/ should be more liberal, not restrict
the length, allow portable user names and expand on that by allowing
domain-based user names as well. I'd drop the trailing $.



Mihai

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From: "Norman Gray" <gray@nxg.name>
To: "Mihai Moldovan" <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: 1229@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] x2go rejects usernames starting with digits, incorrectly
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:11:51 +0000
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Mihai, hello.

On 28 Oct 2017, at 9:09, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> On 10/27/2017 06:51 PM, Norman Gray wrote:
>> At present, x2goserver sanitises usernames with a regexp in 
>> x2goutils.pm
>> and in x2gosqlitewrapper.pl (same in both places). [...]
>
> Just to make it clear - we're not really "validating user names". I 
> couldn't
> care less about the user name as such - it's the system's 
> responsibility to deal
> with user names and if users managed to login, we can assume the user 
> name is
> valid, like you've already written on the -dev mailing list and here.
[...]
> What we really do in this part of code is validating a session ID, 
> which happens
> to contain a user name. Sadly, as such, what we see as a user name 
> must be
> correctly represented in order to check the session ID.
>
> Generally, a session ID should look like that:
>   <username>-<DISPLAY number>-<UNIX timestamp denoting session 
> creation
> time>_st<string representation of session type>_dp<DISPLAY bit depth>

Righto -- that makes perfect sense: there did look like there was more 
going on there than mere validation.

Parenthetically (because it would imply changes well beyond the scope of 
this bug report), something like u<uid>-... would be easy to assemble at 
this point, and be totally bomb-proof (but obviously doesn't help if 
it's the user _name_ you need later on).

But returning to your points...

>> Note that the test may in fact be redundant, since if this code is 
>> being
>> run, then the corresponding user has already logged on to the system, 
>> so
>> that the username has already been verified as valid and existing.
>
> In theory it's redundant. But there is a possibility that we are 
> reading garbage
> data, where ever that might come from. Any bug (including our scripts 
> messing up
> splitting up something, or inserting something invalid into the 
> database and
> reading it again later) could trigger such a situation, so IMHO 
> validation of
> input strings is really not redundant.

Sanity checks are good!

>>    * POSIX/Single Unix says of the username simply "To be portable
>> across systems conforming to POSIX.1-2008, the value is composed of
>> characters from the portable filename character set. The 
>> <hyphen-minus>
>> character should not be used as the first character of a portable 
>> user
>> name." (see <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/>,
>> paragraph 3.437)
>
> So, hyphen is prohibited as the first character. Also, SUS recommends 
> (but does
> not enforce) using the portable filename character set[0] only for 
> portability,
> which is restricted to [A-Za-z0-9._-]. Specifically, this does not 
> include any
> special characters like umlauts, accented characters or generally any 
> other
> Unicode character.
>
>>    * The Debian useradd(8) page recommends something matching
>> /^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$/, but goes on to say "On Debian, the only
>> constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash ('-') 
>> nor
>> contain a colon (':') or a whitespace (space: ' ', end of line: '\n',
>> tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a slash ('/') may break the
>> default algorithm for the definition of the user's home directory." 
>> (see
>> eg <https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/8/useradd/>)
>
> This is a bit stricter than the SUS definition (ignoring the 
> portability
> recommendation). If taken at face value, Debian allows any Unicode 
> character but
> the restricted ones. Interestingly, the recommended matching regexp 
> doesn't
> include uppercase characters and, arguably more interestingly, doesn't 
> allow a
> user name to start with a digit (which would be problematic for you).
>
>
>>    * The corresponding RedHat/CentOS manpage doesn't even include 
>> that,
>> and instead says only "Usernames may only be up to 32 characters 
>> long."
>> FreeBSD is similarly laid-back about the username.
>
> This is interesting as well, since it's the first document that 
> mentions a
> maximum length. If interpreted directly, the previous documents did 
> not restrict
> the length (unless you haven't pasted some information relating to the 
> string
> length).


I wouldn't be at all astonished to see unicode usernames before long.  
It's the sort of thing Apple or RedHat would do, and which it appears 
Debian might already do in principle (if not much in practice); and 
since IRIs, for example, can now at least indirectly support all of 
Unicode in the DNS, the idea of a non-ASCII üsernamé is less 
outlandish than it might once have been.  It would go beyond SUS, and so 
would be a big deal, but it might be worth having x2go aim for a 
solution which is robust against that, and so which would solve the 
issue once and for all.

Hmm: one possibility would be to put the uid in the session string 
(though I appreciate, as above, that may not work for x2go for other 
reasons).

Another would be to run the username through a punycode converter 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode> as with IRIs: any characters in 
[a-zA-Z0-9-] would come through that unchanged, but others would be 
normalised.  This would be an invisible change for most usernames.  As a 
normalisation, it also has the advantage that it's reversible if need 
be.  I can't remember -- and that Wikipedia page doesn't refresh my 
memory -- exactly what subset of characters comes through a punycode 
conversion unchanged, so this would require a little further thought.

But again, these go beyond the immediate scope of this present issue.

> The @ character indeed has been added to allow email-address-like user 
> names as
> part of https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573
>
>
> Allowing $ as trailing characters has been part from the start, though 
> I
> honestly don't understand why.

I share your puzzlement with that one.  Is it possible this was the 
end-of-string pattern in the regexp, which got in to the allowable 
trailing characters by mistake?

> In theory, /^[A-Za-z0-9._][A-Za-z0-9._-@]*/ should be more liberal, 
> not restrict
> the length, allow portable user names and expand on that by allowing
> domain-based user names as well. I'd drop the trailing $.

That looks very plausible to me.

Best wishes,

Norman


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From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
To: 1229-submitter@bugs.x2go.org
Cc: control@bugs.x2go.org, 1229@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: X2Go issue (in src:x2goserver) has been marked as pending for release
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:23:25 +0100 (CET)
tag #1229 pending
fixed #1229 4.0.1.21
thanks

Hello,

X2Go issue #1229 (src:x2goserver) reported by you has been
fixed in X2Go Git. You can see the changelog below, and you can
check the diff of the fix at:

    http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=780622a

The issue will most likely be fixed in src:x2goserver (4.0.1.21).

light+love
X2Go Git Admin (on behalf of the sender of this mail)

---
commit 780622ac76ed677e3c59aa65a6e487062e2ec31e
Author: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Date:   Wed Nov 1 06:47:37 2017 +0100

    x2goserver/lib/x2go{sqlitewrapper.pl,utils.pm}: allow arbitrary-length user names, user names starting with digits and drop $ as a valid user name character. Fixes: #1229.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4d63a80..19045ff 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ x2goserver (4.0.1.21-0x2go1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - x2goserver/{bin/x2golistshadowsessions,
       lib/x2go{dbwrapper.pm,sqlitewrapper.pl}}: backport listshadowsessions*
       DB functions and unmark them as FIXME entries.
+    - x2goserver/lib/x2go{sqlitewrapper.pl,utils.pm}: allow arbitrary-length
+      user names, user names starting with digits and drop $ as a valid user
+      name character. Fixes: #1229.
   * x2goserver.spec:
     - Add mandatory perl-generators Build-Requires as per
       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl


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From: X2Go Release Manager X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org>
To: 1229-submitter@bugs.x2go.org
Cc: control@bugs.x2go.org, 1229@bugs.x2go.org
Subject: X2Go issue (in src:x2goserver) has been marked as closed
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:04:46 +0100 (CET)
close #1229
thanks

Hello,

we are very hopeful that X2Go issue #1229 reported by you
has been resolved in the new release (4.0.1.21) of the
X2Go source project »src:x2goserver«.

You can view the complete changelog entry of src:x2goserver (4.0.1.21)
below, and you can use the following link to view all the code changes
between this and the last release of src:x2goserver.

    http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goserver.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8cd8ad873763b546632b8b1ee2762e058da75f4;hp=2c504692966fa2ac456961c2fe561f53c33536b5

If you feel that the issue has not been resolved satisfyingly, feel
free to reopen this bug report or submit a follow-up report with
further observations described based on the new released version
of src:x2goserver.

Thanks a lot for contributing to X2Go!!!

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---
X2Go Component: src:x2goserver
Version: 4.0.1.21-0x2go1
Status: RELEASE
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:01:58 +0100
Fixes: 1151 1153 1198 1229 1230
Changes:
 x2goserver (4.0.1.21-0x2go1) RELEASED; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Mihai Moldovan ]
   * New upstream version (4.0.1.21):
     - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: don't overzealously try to remove old
       nxagent sockets. If the nxagent process already vanished, simply forget
       the remembered session. Otherwise we might delete sockets that have been
       re-assigned to other sessions in the meantime.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: convert X2GO_PORT searching algorithm to
       pure bash and let script fail if no display port is available.
     - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: fix syntax error introduced in last
       change to this file.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: make compatible with changes in
       Arctica's nxagent. Also change to an all-bash algorithm. Fixes: #1151.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: fix a typo that caused the script to not
       work properly - with or without Arctica's nx-libs.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: rename ${setxkbcomp_opts} to
       ${setxkbmap_opts}, that's what it really is.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: setxkbmap expects a parameter called
       "-option", but nxagent uses the key "options". Make setxkbmap happy.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: $BASH_REMATCH is tricky, actually fetch
       the first match. In the $BASH_REMATCH array, index 0 contains the *full*
       match, while indices 1+ only contain the partial matches. We're only
       interested in the first partial match.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: only match up the first ending quote
       character in a non-greedy way. This will not support nested quotes
       within values, but we probably don't need this feature anyway.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: try to enable lingering via systemd's
       loginctl utility before calling x2goagent. Fixes: #1198.
     - x2goserver-xsession/etc/Xsession: support Devuan just like Debian, give
       useful error message in case the OS is unknown.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: fetch hostname via "hostname -s" and do
       not rely on the HOSTNAME variable. The latter is only set automatically
       by bash if it's not already part of the environment. We might get
       "garbage" in this way (and one user actually did.)
     - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: whitespace only.
     - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: close syslog at program exit.
     - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: whitespace only.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: copy and use a few needed utility
       functions from x2gocleansessions.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: mark unavailable functionality
       with FIXME comments.
     - x2goserver-xsession/etc/Xsession: add support for OS RT via
       /etc/os-rt-release (file needs to be created by upstream first, bug
       pending.)
     - x2goserver/{bin/x2golistshadowsessions,
       lib/x2go{dbwrapper.pm,sqlitewrapper.pl}}: backport listshadowsessions*
       DB functions and unmark them as FIXME entries.
     - x2goserver/lib/x2go{sqlitewrapper.pl,utils.pm}: allow arbitrary-length
       user names, user names starting with digits and drop $ as a valid user
       name character. Fixes: #1229.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2goruncommand: use dbus-run-session to start a new dbus
       user session if available. Only for full desktop sessions. Backported
       from a Debian patch.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2goresume-session: backport HOSTNAME changes from
       x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2go{resume-session,startagent}: catch errors while
       inserting values into database more gracefully. Fixes: #1230.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: write hostname errors to stderr to make
       X2Go Client (and maybe PyHoca?) fail.
     - x2goserver/{bin/x2go{runcommand,suspend-session},
       sbin/x2gocleansessions}: remove hopefully redundant HOSTNAME export
       commands.
     - x2goserver/etc/x2goagent.options: remove file, moved to x2goagent.
     - x2goserver/Makefile: actually unreference x2goagent.options file as
       well.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2go{resume-session,startagent}: revert error catching
       while inserting values into database. The current code structure relies
       on ignoring failures and retrying until an operation succeeded, which
       may eventually happen or just as well may never happen. We need
       something smarter here.
     - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: log x2goagent startup command to syslog
       in debug mode.
   * x2goserver.spec:
     - Add mandatory perl-generators Build-Requires as per
       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl
     - Correct usage of mime and desktop database upgrade scriptlets and
       dependencies. Fedora mandates to not depend upon shared-mime-info, even
       not for the scriplets. Additionally, FC24 has deprecated usage of the
       mime database update scriptlet and FC25 has deprecated usage of the
       desktop database update scriptlet. (Open)SUSE mandates to pull in
       shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils as post/postun scriptlet
       dependencies and provides special macros since 11.4. Older versions are
       handled via the usual commands.
     - Simplify systemd usage a bit and make sure that it's restarted on Fedora
       and RHEL-based distros. FIXME: Not enabled by default on FC/RHEL/*SuSE.
     - Use Suggests instead of Recommends, as an even weaker dependency. We can
       live just fine without printing or fmbindings and no functions of the
       x2goserver package as well will be impacted. The DEB control file also
       uses "Suggests" for this.
     - Fix RPM spec syntax error in shared-mime-info dependency section.
     - Fix %{?fedora} macro usage.
     - Add the correct package name to the %posttrans scriptlet, we only need
       it for x2goserver-fmbindings.
     - Make sure that we don't go into branches just because a macro is not
       defined on our platform.
     - Work around a bug in SuSE's mime DB update script...
     - Make sure that there's always at least one (nil) command in the if
       command list.
     - Break older SLES builds on purpose to see what branch is *actually*
       taken. Will be reverted shortly.
     - Fix typo in %if condition (0%?{?fedora} instead of 0%{?fedora}.)
     - Contrary to other information that says "brackets" and consistent with
       RPM's source code, grouping is done via "(" and ")" in conditions.
     - More platform-specific condition fixup.
     - Pull in shared-mime-info as a build requirement only on *SuSE and add
       comment regarding why desktop-file-utils is always needed.
     - Also add a trans(action)-requirement on shared-mime-info for older
       RHEL-based distros.
     - RPM spec does not allow %elif or %elseif, which lead to all weird kinds
       of errors. Split these up into nested conditions.
     - There is no %trans scriptlet, we're using %posttrans, so the dependency
       should be specified as Requires(posttrans) as well.
     - Pull in dbus-run-session if possible. Only available on Fedora, SLE12+
       and OpenSuSE 13+.
     - Pull in x2goagent >= 3.5.0.33 explicitly, first version that reflects
       the x2goagent.options file move.
   * debian/po:
     - Tiny fixup on author name.
   * debian/control:
     - Whitespace fixes.
     - Add BD on dh-systemd. We'll need it for systemd integration.
     - Depend upon dbus for dbus-run-session.
     - Pull in x2goagent >= 3.5.0.33 explicitly, first version that reflects
       the x2goagent.options file move.
   * debian/rules:
     - Call the systemd addon to process and install the systemd service file.
     - Don't fail if we don't have the systemd addon. Systems that don't have
       that will likely not use systemd in the first place.
 .
   [ Martti Pitkänen ]
   * debian/po:
     - Translate DebConf templates to Finnish.
 .
   [ Orion Paplowski ]
   * x2goserver.spec:
     - Requires(post) does not imply Requires, and missing ones on grep and the
       SQLite perl module.
     - Fedora >= 21 and (Open)SUSE >= 11 now allow Recommends.
     - perl(:MODULE_COMPAT...) is only needed for perl modules. Drop from
       x2goserver-printing and x2goserver-xsession.
     - Delete .packlist which may be in different locations.
     - Sort some %files entries.
 .
   [ Mike Gabriel ]
   * New upstream version (4.0.1.21):
     - x2goserver/bin/x2goruncommand: stop exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH when using
       Arctica's nx-libs and its new Xinerama feature. Fixes: #1153.
     - Make x2goruncommand aware of the LXQt desktop shell.
     - x2goserver/x2gosqlitewrapper.c: fix implicit declaration of execv().
     - x2goserver/: backport x2golistshadowsessions.


Marked Bug as done Request was from X2Go Release Manager X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org> to control@bugs.x2go.org. (Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:10:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to "Norman Gray" <gray@nxg.name>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:10:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message sent on to "Norman Gray" <gray@nxg.name>:
Bug#1229. (Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:10:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.x2go.org> to internal_control@bugs.x2go.org. (Thu, 07 Dec 2017 06:24:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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