Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:20:21 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Dmytro Bilokha <dmytro@posteo.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting system user home directory Message-ID: <5A352BA5.9070403@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20171216135919.GA17551@wstan> References: <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan> <5A351515.1080805@quip.cz> <20171216135919.GA17551@wstan>
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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 <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. >> >> 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
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