[gentoo-dev] Freenet questions...

[gentoo-dev] Freenet questions...

[Per Wigren]

Hi!

I have a working .ebuild of Freenet now that I'm very satisfied with (and I 
hope+think you will also be)!

The problem is that it is pretty insecure (runs as root)..
I'd prefer it to run as user "freenet" instead of root...
I can't run it as "nobody" because then the store-file and logs have to be 
writable by "nobody" which is no good...

How can I make the .ebuild add the user "freenet"?
Any better ideas? Or should I let it be run as root?

What is a good default size of the datastore?
Right now I put it in /var/freenet and set the default size to 1/3rd of the 
*available* space on /var, up to 1GB, using some df/awk/bash-magic.. :) (To 
change it, just change the storeSize= parameter in /etc/freenet.conf)

Regards
Per Wigren

Re: [gentoo-dev] Freenet questions...

[JR Boyens]

Take a look at the postfix build, it just asks the user to add the
'postdrop' user.

--
JR Boyens
jboyens@iastate.edu

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 12:43, Per Wigren wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a working .ebuild of Freenet now that I'm very satisfied with (and I 
> hope+think you will also be)!
> 
> The problem is that it is pretty insecure (runs as root)..
> I'd prefer it to run as user "freenet" instead of root...
> I can't run it as "nobody" because then the store-file and logs have to be 
> writable by "nobody" which is no good...
> 
> How can I make the .ebuild add the user "freenet"?
> Any better ideas? Or should I let it be run as root?
> 
> What is a good default size of the datastore?
> Right now I put it in /var/freenet and set the default size to 1/3rd of the 
> *available* space on /var, up to 1GB, using some df/awk/bash-magic.. :) (To 
> change it, just change the storeSize= parameter in /etc/freenet.conf)
> 
> Regards
> Per Wigren
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