Building new port, don't want to run as root
Brooks Davis
brooks at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 28 16:32:45 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:27:44PM +0300, Walter Venable wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> I take it you're talking about a daemon process and you want to have the
>> rc.subr scripts start it as another user than root? That's fairly simple.
>>
>> To make rc.subr start a process using a different UserID, all you need to
>> do is define variables
>>
>> name = foo <-- standard rc script thing to
>> setup the namespace
>> foo_user = someone
>> foo_group = somegroup
> Ok, silly question, but I looked around again and hit another brick wall --
> how do I make the port add a user that doesn't already exist?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html
-- Brooks
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