From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 16 17:04:19 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A78E8875C for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:04:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmytro@posteo.net) Received: from mout01.posteo.de (mout01.posteo.de [185.67.36.65]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.posteo.de", Issuer "StartCom Class 3 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E8466AF20 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:04:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmytro@posteo.net) Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 101D820C72 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:04:15 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1513443855; bh=JlOM8PBXsyJdAQvOY2mdvBbZ+McrO60zNjwcA/InShA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:From; b=N5Y8FYfXYK8ovoD6rWY32ddTZlb6JomI5snM8ZFaz0wqL4Gfdnd5eozOZjsVDp3L9 M4gTLIuzDJVPtkch9781o/TSqCwZprViVj5fYvw1lFOu8PkwOM69nB59E8jZm0vcsP 73wY3begY8jd8Vmuf9loctxJ75iA5nELofxaB7zZxKX+o3t5tUaOups7+oD45ZdAk2 ppjvbo4TahiBKwWoq9MjIqee19GkMUpQyUnOTtLTAtF70SPyfDfpvUMXAwY0EEnVeh qFZw+rzGiHTw5+qoyrix+f8nlLZbsTJxxpes0Ohtn73bwlBNU0s2woWTmXKr6CBwr9 Sx5cahUXh9mQA== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3yzYYV16tyz9rxJ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:04:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:04:12 +0200 From: Dmytro Bilokha To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting system user home directory Message-ID: <20171216170411.GA85559@wstan> References: <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan> <5A351515.1080805@quip.cz> <20171216135919.GA17551@wstan> <5A352BA5.9070403@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5A352BA5.9070403@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:04:19 -0000 On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 03:20:21PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >Dmytro Bilokha wrote on 2017/12/16 14:59: >> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 01:44:05PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> Dmytro Bilokha wrote on 2017/12/16 10:40: >>>> 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 >>>> do-install: >>>> .........doing some work here...... >>>> @/usr/sbin/pw usermod payara -d ${DATADIR}/prefs >>>> .include >>>> ....end of the makefile..... >>>> >>>> Many thanks for your attention and help. >>> >>> I don't know Payara but applications should not write its files to >>> /usr/local. This should work even if /usr/local is mounted Read Only. >>> If you need to store configuration (preferences) then it should be in >>> /usr/local/etc/payara. >>> If the application writes some data files like databases, it goes under >>> /var/db/payara and log in to /var/log/payara.log or /var/log/payara >>> (directory) >>> >>> Miroslav Lachman >> >> Thanks for the information. Now I'm a little bit confused. >> I've checked and seems to me that nither www/tomcat85 (servlet >> container) nor www/glassfish and java/wildfly10 (application servers) >> ports follow this convention. >> All of them has directories for logs, configuration and Java >> applications under the >> /usr/local. Is there something special in Java servers ports? > > >I know there are ports not following this convention (and I don't >understand why). Those ports are making troubles if you want to serve >/usr/local as read only NFS for example. > >Miroslav Lachman Ok, than I'll try to move everything writable from /usr/local to /var. I plan to put system user's caches and properties to the /var/payara/X.Y.Z/prefs, where X.Y.Z is an application's version. And this returns me to the first question: how to properly change user's home directory on port installation? -- Dmytro Bilokha dmytro@posteo.net +38-050-607-41-43