On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: > Hello ports, > > Apologies for removing the context, I joined the ports list recently and > do not have stsp's original mail. > > I may be wrong here, but I was wondering whether we could change the > home of the _svnserve user to /var/svn from the current /nonexistent. > > In other words, could we change from > @newuser _svnserve:777:_svnserve:daemon:SVN Daemon:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin > to > @newuser _svnserve:777:_svnserve:daemon:SVN Daemon:/var/svn:/sbin/nologin > > The idea is that post installation, one has to change the owner of the > /var/svn/reponame directory to _svnserve anyways.
I like your idea. I suppose /var/svn is a sane default path, and there are already other cases where other parts create directories in /var. I'll note though that /var/svn won't work with an Apache HTTPD server chrooted to /var/www -- but chroot requires special steps anyway and having /var/svn around for just svnserve won't hurt. Would you be able to submit a diff to the port which implements this idea? > Steps: > $ doas pkg_add subversion > $ cd /var > $ doas mkdir svn > $ cd /var/svn > $ doas svnadmin create reponame > $ doas chown -R _svnserve:_svnserve /var/svn/reponame > $ doas mkdir log > $ doas chown -R _svnserve:_svnserve /var/svn/log > > For more context, could I please refer you to my recent mail on misc - > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=154221094309572&w=2. > > In case I am missing something or doing something stupid, please feel > free to point it out. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > ab > ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|-- >
