Yuri created COUCHDB-2638:
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Summary: CouchDB should not be writing /etc/couchdb/local.ini
Key: COUCHDB-2638
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2638
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Reporter: Yuri
I am getting such messages in log on FreeBSD:
> Could not write config file /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini: permission
> denied
The problem is that CoachDB supplies the original copy of local.ini, and it is
treated as a template for this configuration file. It is placed into
/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini.sample, and its copy is placed into
/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini. Everything under /etc is what admin
configures. Ideally admin can compare local.ini and local.ini.sample and see if
anything in default configuration was modified compared to the suggested sample.
When the executable itself modifies local.ini too, this makes it very
confusing. Admin will be confused if he should or shouldn't touch this file.
My suggestion is that CouchDB should copy local.ini under /var/db/, or
somewhere else, and write it there. /etc isn't supposed to be writable by the
process.
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