Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:40:58 +0200 From: Dmytro Bilokha <dmytro@posteo.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Setting system user home directory Message-ID: <20171216094058.GA37778@wstan>
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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.
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Dmytro Bilokha
dmytro@posteo.net
+38-050-607-41-43
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