From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/872 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Schwinge Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: supervised processes controlled by non-root user? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:05:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20050915120556.GA4861@nic-nac-project.de> References: <4329310A.8060002@robinbowes.com> <20050915093717.4944.qmail@0d59b37f3e46bc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <43295EAE.9080903@robinbowes.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126786176 8885 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2005 12:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-1108-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu Sep 15 14:09:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFsWn-0004rm-9a for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15507 invoked by uid 76); 15 Sep 2005 12:08:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 15485 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2005 12:06:25 -0000 Original-To: Robin Bowes Mail-Followup-To: Robin Bowes , supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43295EAE.9080903@robinbowes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at nic-nac-project.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:c9c8b863173b56dc4a0242d71aa058ab Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:872 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:44:46PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: > Presumably this would work even if the service in question uses > privileged ports as the actual starting and stoping of the service is > done by the svscan process which is started by svscanboot? Yes. > >Or, if the complete service should be owned by the user, see > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/795 > > This is a "nicer" solution. Is this possible with daemontools, or only > using your runit package? There once was a web page that described how to set up a service directory in a user's home directory. I can't find the URL at the moment, but the procedure was something like having a service /service/user_service-USER, which has #v+ exec \ setuidgid USER \ svscan ~USER/service #v- ... in its run file. Regards, Thomas