[lxc-users] Ownership changes after container move

Tycho Andersen tycho.andersen at canonical.com
Tue Nov 10 15:16:52 UTC 2015


Hi Jamie,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:10:22AM +0000, Jamie Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve discovered that some file ownership changes have occurred after moving stopped containers between hosts.
> 
> Prior to the move there were various user directories (e.g. “/home/jamie”) with ownership set to jamie:jamie. After moving, the ownership was changed to ubuntu:ubuntu.

Sounds like a pretty serious bug. Do you happen to know how to
reproduce the problem?

Thanks,

Tycho

> I discovered the issue when attempting to SSH to the moved host and was prompted to enter my password as I no longer owned my authorized_keys file.
> 
> I will try to repeat this, but I can confirm it has happened on multiple containers.
> 
> — Jamie

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