From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 16 09:47:24 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 64E5CEA29A1 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:47:24 +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 2AFFD7E9D5 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmytro@posteo.net) Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B0EF20849 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:41:01 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1513417261; bh=VJFw8WfX15dARBwuE0OB8EMI2kibkfZ1t3hCDQQvNFo=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=JFd9/LwMAB5awv/m5LL1RmPkUzcmDRdB5A6IwbfMPCgfYqgKA8XYe7oFKISYoqYSn S5u+TOWESUfY53/dw0u9imc0/TH+q/uKZVfPR0CfuGpDZqcLRGY9yqCI1hR0wyIOBK Wht/4K95VkDJ78sfqKOBmc9Ssg6ImV6bgF+0uYlTeAALrVTc6wcmChK6xwIgxaKZ0J gaib3M1G1Tr40Ognl8aAtAyNT6jTLlXxWFvFChIkwdLHaHK8Onuc9vrCtbmxeqTQm9 G0v1SEFxyDVxB1e5U+KCNaPkjdDWF/WRC2KpSK3ufWcAwoewfD4VUc5KEdLfRX4/U6 bu2+XDj9LA9cA== Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3yzMk42cCyz9rxV for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:41:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:40:58 +0200 From: Dmytro Bilokha To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Setting system user home directory Message-ID: <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline 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 09:47:24 -0000 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. -- Dmytro Bilokha dmytro@posteo.net +38-050-607-41-43