Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 03:41:33 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Daniel Morante <daniel@morante.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port: net-p2p/zetacoin Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf9HYW4TeUZByEEHnizx%2BG75Vs9j%2B4mV3ysB4Hq0QQ68Zw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <534874BE.1060600@morante.net> References: <534874BE.1060600@morante.net>
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Daniel Morante <daniel@morante.net> wrote:
> I'm updating the port and at the same time making some changes to the rc.d
> start up script.
> I have added the option to change the user that zetacoind runs as:
>
>
> : ${zetacoin_user="root"}
> : ${zetacoin_group="wheel"}
>
>
> zetacoin_create_datadir()
> {
> echo "Creating data directory"
> eval mkdir -p ${zetacoin_datadir}
> [ $? -eq 0 ] && chown -R ${zetacoin_user}:${zetacoin_group}
> ${zetacoin_datadir}
> ln -s ${zetacoin_datadir} /.zetacoin
> }
>
>
>
>
> I'm not sure if I should leave it defaulting to root/wheel or have the port
> create a "zetacoin" user and group and have it use that to begin with.
>
It's better to have less things run as root/wheel. Especially if the
zetacoind daemon can be run as a different user.
> Should I just let the end user make that decision?
>
The port maintainer should make this decision to switch the user/group
to zetacoin.
> The problem I see with defaulting to a "zetacoin" user is that existing
> installations will need to manually change the owner and group of the data
> directory.
>
> Thoughts?
>
You just have to prepare a note for UPDATING that says that the
zetacoind daemon is now run as user zetacoin, and that existing
installations will need to change the owner/group to zetacoin for the
data directory.
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