Comment 8 for bug 697792

SRU information:

Impact: The bug affects many existing user; they make local modifications to the ownership or permissions of /etc/fuse.conf and installing an update squashes those changes.

As stated above, the patch fixes this by only setting the permission and ownership of /etc/fuse.conf when it is also adding the fuse group in the postinst, rather than unconditionally. It's considered unlikely that there would be local modifications to fuse.conf when the fuse group does not exist.

See linked branch for proposed fix for Lucid.

Reproduce by: change perm/own of /etc/fuse.conf; apt-get rm fuse-utils; apt-get install fuse-utils; see the perm/own change. Installing the fixed package however will preserve this change. You should also test a fresh install by apt-get purge fuse-utils; delgroup fuse; then install the fixed package and see both the group and own/perm on /etc/fuse.conf be installed correctly

Regression potential: None foreseeable, unless someone depends on the unconditionally squashing of perm/own of /etc/fuse.conf on upgrade.