On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:11:44PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 15:36, Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On any given system, I would expect ovsdb-server to run as the same > > > user > > > every time. Is there a reason to sometimes use a different user? > > > > Well, changing from root which was the only supported option in the > > past and current default to a different user (like the suggested > > openvswitch), this one time, might be somewhat common. And the scenario > > that I am looking at is suporting a pianless upgrade through it. > > Actually debian packages still by default use "root" user. Not "openvswitch". > > Long time ago there was an attempt to change the default user across > all different flavor packages to openvswitch (you can lookup the patch > on mailing list). However, as you noticed upgrades are tricky. Hence > packages built from our debian/rules and rhel/openvswitch.spec.in > files still use "root" as default user. The packages built with > rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in are an exception where the user indeed > is "openvswitch". Unless you passed --without libcapng flag to > rpmbuild invocation. Then the user would still be "root". > > Here are the difficulties with automating the change of file ownership:
Wow, much harder than I would have guessed too! Thanks for all the details. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
