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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:40:58 +0200
From:      Dmytro Bilokha <dmytro@posteo.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Setting system user home directory
Message-ID:  <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan>

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Hello, Everyone!

I'm trying to change www/payara port to make it run under the payara user instead of root.
I've added the following line to the UIDs file:

payara:*:221:221::0:0:Payara Application Server user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin

And this line to the port makefile:

USERS=		payara

Also, I've made some another changes to the port's scripts to start service under payara user.
Everything seems to be fine, but the service on start/shutdown creates some preferences files,
caches, etc in the payara user's homedir.
The problem is, that it is impossible to create these files in /nonexistent. This fact makes
service to show some annoying warnings on every startup/shutdown.
To make service to work properly I want to create directory writable by the payara user and
set it as payara's homedir.
And I don't want to put these dir under the /usr/home/, it should be somewhere in the application,
like /usr/local/payara-4.1.2.173/prefs.
As far as I understand, payara user will be created automatically by the bsd.port.pre.mk file included in the port's makefile. But, during every installation somehow payara user's homedir
should be changed. I can do it with the following one-liner:

/usr/sbin/pw usermod payara -d ${DATADIR}/prefs

So, the questions are:
1. Is it a proper way of doing such kind of things?
2. Where in the port's makefile should I put my one-liner? Will it be OK to make it like this:

.......head of the make file with setting variables and so on is here......
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
do-install:
	.........doing some work here......
	@/usr/sbin/pw usermod payara -d ${DATADIR}/prefs
.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
....end of the makefile.....

Many thanks for your attention and help.

-- 
Dmytro Bilokha
dmytro@posteo.net
+38-050-607-41-43



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