David Van Couvering wrote:
> I just ran the web stack initialization on build 79a, and it already
> modifies permissions on a couple of files to get Apache to work, see
> the following output:
>
> making sure that the mysql user and group exists, and owns /var/mysql content
> allowing RW access to httpd.conf, php.ini and my.cnf to user dv136566
> adding apache22 and mysql privileges to user dv136566
>
> it seems like it should not be much work to also grant write access to
> the gem repository.
>
you are correct.
> Also, I noticed that the htdoc directory is not writeable by the
> current user even after initializating the web stack.
hum. Not for me. Can't you add a file or a dir under htdoc?
Try to 'create' the sample and run it (via the menus)
Ludo
> Couldn't we fix
> that as well?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 2:10 PM, David Van Couvering <david at vancouvering.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You know, I wonder if as part of "Initializing" the web stack, we can
>> grant write permissions to the gem repository for the developer
>> initializing the web stack. Would that work? We already grant
>> permissions to start the services, so it seems to me this is in the
>> same boat. Just a thought, I recognize this may be a surprising and
>> unexpected side effect of initializing the web stack...
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2008 6:53 PM, Jyri Virkki <Jyri.Virkki at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another reason is that Rubygems does not have an
>>>> advanced notion of access control, so setting up user specific
>>>> $GEM_HOMEs is not the easiest mechanism out there. ie., if you're not
>>>> root, and want to install Rails, there are hoops. Not that this is
>>>> specific to Solaris, but it's still an issue.
>>>>
>>> I hope things can be tweaked to eliminate those hoops though (6635513,
>>> 6640996)! It'll be a nice advantage for OpenSolaris when both Ruby
>>> developers and sysadmins can cleanly install their gems without
>>> complications.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
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>>
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>> David W. Van Couvering
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