On Mon, Jul 13 2009, Krishnakant wrote:
> hello all,
> I am happy to announce that we are almost ready with the deb packages
> for gnukhata-client as well as server.
> Now we are facing a problem and I thought some one like JTD would
> already know a solution to my problem.
> I have been trying to make a demon for gnukhata's server and want it to
> run as the postgres user.
Why? If you want there to be a DB that GNU Khata uses, the
typical thing is to:
a) Create a package specific user during initial install (i.e., there
is no such user, and there is no previous version installed on the
system)
b) Depend on a database system
b) Based on the system installed on the target machine, or a use
choice via debconf, you run a script that
1) Creates the database
2) Populates its schema (create table, etc)
3) create a package specific user in the db
4) grant all access to the db created to said user.
> I would ideally want this to be in the init.d
> for start, stop and restart. In addition most of the people would want
> this to start at system boot.
This is normal.
> does some one have a link to a tutorial which would teach this.
> Also I want to know if I want to run this demon as a dedicated user?
You should.
> For security reasons postgresql has a dedicated user by the name of
> postgres and this is the most recommended way of running the system.
Not if you want your package to actually get into Debian.
> So while I would want the demon to auto start at system boot, i would
> surely like to know if some one knows to make a demon run as a specific
> user?
Look at clamav, et al. Most daemons do not run as root or as
postgres.
> I know this might be very simple but this is the first time I am doing
> some thing similar.
I think you need to program by example :-)
manoj
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