[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#619002: Bug#619002: sbuild-update: doesn't work anymore: You do not have permission to access the schroot service

[Jakub Wilk]

* Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>, 2011-03-20, 21:41:
>Group sbuild is not in source-root-groups, and you're using a
>filesystem union which requires it.

That's right.

>This configuration was previously working, but not entirely correct.
>With 0.62.0, the privilege separation means the 'sbuild' user is used
>to run schroot, and this required group sbuild to be in root-groups
>and source-root-groups. 

Is it documented anywhere?

>If you were running sbuild-update as a normal user in group sbuild, you 
>would probably have already hit the issue.
>
>This is, I think, the problem you are seeing.  Please let me know if 
>this assessment is correct (or not).

Yes, this is the case.

I can't say I'm happy with current behaviour (I normally expect that if 
I am root, I can do anything), but I guess I can live with it. Feel free 
to close the bug.

-- 
Jakub Wilk