ports/92755: databases/slony1: Add ability to run slon as a different user

[Jim C. Nasby]

The following reply was made to PR ports/92755; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel at decibel.org>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/92755: databases/slony1: Add ability to run slon as a different user
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:30:17 -0600

 On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:04:55PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
 > I'll accept this enhancement.
 > 
 > But doesn't setting the slon_user variable automatically make it run  
 > under that user?  I'm wondering what the point of the slon_command()  
 > function is.  The only difference is the normal way would run with  
 > 'su -m' but yours does 'su -l'.  I think the former is preferable  
 > since it doesn't require slony_user have a valid shell or password.
 
 Hrm, is there magic in the rc system to account for slon_user? I just
 copied what the pgsql port does...
 
 > Also, the variable slon_user should be filtered through %%NAME%%  
 > expansion, and might be best located down where the enable flag is  
 > defaulted, too.
 
 I'm sure there's all sorts of better ways to do what I did... feel free.
 :)
 
 BTW, if you want to get fancy, there's currently nothing in the port
 about creating a user account. Might be best to just run under a slony
 user by default...
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