From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 16 18:53:25 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 A5384E8B103 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:53:25 +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 530DC6E54F for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:53:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmytro@posteo.net) Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C71B420DE6 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:53:20 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1513450400; bh=bnkVlE3Xweh3yF5DD5h6Aa1Z1JkH4W/RujXQAIJxJfI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:From; b=BkA0+OeX3KY2yymjXfhF2xIaFS5gMA5N448yIi+Fr1wEOPpaCguv3eYfBKQt9e6t6 5MMj+O+OmRL318WsiOAlC26LCfaVvtW9WmBpPf/PcWVJTiSsGFWrr9GV9uFrgimz8M ltOLnhGZDvZob1trrxKsQE2EjXhUvgtsPzPcgXkmgql6fQlYLvKWIeRLysh0GXjTc0 7J/p/JGgn9+0JBjLGwHZy6r2IJRzZx0pKwjoJGxti1192NcCP8jwvrTn0hmFDnVsyT RVcpsjf8G6gBm3VTlW7T8yY4fAxWgtEvLDdpYg+/C2nJa06QE6G37bI96f9DWmlHXX bgJZCWZHll4ew== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3yzbzM6t90z9rxK; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:53:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:53:17 +0200 From: Dmytro Bilokha To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, FreeBSD Ports ML Subject: Re: Setting system user home directory Message-ID: <20171216185317.GA87289@wstan> References: <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan> <5A351515.1080805@quip.cz> <20171216135919.GA17551@wstan> <5A352BA5.9070403@quip.cz> <20171216170411.GA85559@wstan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 18:53:25 -0000 On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:48:34AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Dmytro Bilokha wrote: > >> 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 >> > >How did you add the user? If you did not use the adduser script or vipw, >you must rebuild the database. pwd_mkdb. I would suggest always using vipw >as it automatically does everything > >Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer >E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com >PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 I've add following lines to the port's makefile: USERS= payara GROUPS= payara And user is created automatically during port installation process. -- Dmytro Bilokha dmytro@posteo.net +38-050-607-41-43