Re: Closing on solving NIFI-1500 - NiFi requires too much write permissions to bootstrap

2016-09-27 Thread James Wing
Andre, Is your target for NIFI-1500 the default installation permission scheme, or just that NiFi does not fail to start without the permissions in a customized scheme? Would it be acceptable to distinguish between permissions required to initialize NiFi the first time, and the permissions

Closing on solving NIFI-1500 - NiFi requires too much write permissions to bootstrap

2016-09-27 Thread Andre
devs, A while ago (0.4.0 IIRC) we had a brief exchange of messages around the permissions NiFi requires to run (NIFI-1500). The debate revolved mostly around 4 things: 1 - write access to $NIFI_HOME/bin 2. write access to $NIFI_HOME/lib - NIFI-2818 / #1059 (review is welcome) 3. write access