Port: net-p2p/zetacoin

[Daniel Morante]

Thank you for the direction.

I imagine that Bitcoin, Litecoin, Doggiecoin, namecoin, etc will want to 
do something similar in the future and will add there own users to the 
UIDs file.

I'll create a "zetacoin" user as see if it's accepted.

On 4/12/2014 4:41 AM, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Daniel Morante <daniel at morante.net> wrote:
>> I'm updating the port and at the same time making some changes to the rc.d
>> start up script.
>> I have added the option to change the user that zetacoind runs as:
>>
>>
>> : ${zetacoin_user="root"}
>> : ${zetacoin_group="wheel"}
>>
>>
>> zetacoin_create_datadir()
>> {
>>      echo "Creating data directory"
>>      eval mkdir -p ${zetacoin_datadir}
>>      [ $? -eq 0 ] && chown -R ${zetacoin_user}:${zetacoin_group}
>> ${zetacoin_datadir}
>>      ln -s ${zetacoin_datadir} /.zetacoin
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if I should leave it defaulting to root/wheel or have the port
>> create a "zetacoin" user and group and have it use that to begin with.
>>
> It's better to have less things run as root/wheel.  Especially if the
> zetacoind daemon can be run as a different user.
>
>> Should I just let the end user make that decision?
>>
> The port maintainer should make this decision to switch the user/group
> to zetacoin.
>
>> The problem I see with defaulting to a "zetacoin" user is that existing
>> installations will need to manually change the owner and group of the data
>> directory.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
> You just have to prepare a note for UPDATING that says that the
> zetacoind daemon is now run as user zetacoin, and that existing
> installations will need to change the owner/group to zetacoin for the
> data directory.
>


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