daemonHome

[champtar]

Hi,

by default daemonUser is created with home == /home/<username> (which doesn't exists)
as this is a daemon user that would make sense to point to /usr/share/<packageName> or /var/lib/<packageName>
or at least to have a config option

EDIT:
Using version 1.2.0-M8 packaging .deb for Ubuntu/Debian (but relevant for rpm), creating the package on Ubuntu 16.04 for now

Thanks
Etienne

[muuki88]

Hi @champtar

Thanks for your report. Could you add some details :)

• Which native-packager version are you using
• Which package type are you building (rpm or debian)
• What's your target system (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu,...)
• What system do you use to build your package (OSX, Ubuntu, ... )

The current implementation handling the user creation is in the control-functions template. There is no home defined. The configuration options are

# Adding system user
# $1 = user
# $2 = uid
# $3 = group
# $4 = description
# $5 = shell (defaults to /bin/false)

The actual call is

useradd $uid_flags --gid $group -r --shell $shell -c "$descr" $user

[champtar]

Hi @muuki88,
Thanks for your answer
I just edited my initial description because <...> where hidden (i forgot to put them between quotes) and I also added missing infos

This is definitely a feature request :) (I know this is not implemented)

Basically we just need to add -d "$home" (haven't checked on all supported platform yet) that point by default to a dir really owned by the package

Regards
Etienne

[muuki88]

Ah 😄

I'm happy to merge a pull request that adds this feature if you have time.
It should be implemented like the uid setting. Meaning a user can optionally
add a home directory.

I'm not sure were to directly put this and if native-packager should take care of creating
the folder.