From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/871 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robin Bowes Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: supervised processes controlled by non-root user? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:44:46 +0100 Message-ID: <43295EAE.9080903@robinbowes.com> References: <4329310A.8060002@robinbowes.com> <20050915093717.4944.qmail@0d59b37f3e46bc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126784750 4006 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2005 11:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1107-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu Sep 15 13:45:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFsA8-00070G-PI for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15136 invoked by uid 76); 15 Sep 2005 11:44:42 -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 15130 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2005 11:44:41 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org In-Reply-To: <20050915093717.4944.qmail@0d59b37f3e46bc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:871 Archived-At: Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:30:02AM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: > >>Is it possible to set up services that can be controlled by non-root >>users? If so, how? >> >>(using daemontools 0.76) > > > Add (e.g.) > > chown ./supervise ./supervise/ok ./supervise/control ./supervise/status > > to the top of the ./run script. Now can use svc to control the > service, and svstat query status informations. Does it need to go in the run script? Or will a one-off "chown -R ./supervise user" do the trick? Tell you what, I'll try it :) Answer: the one-off command seems to work. ./supervise/status gets chowned root but has 644 perms so is world-readable. In fact, chown user ./supervise/status in the run file doesn't set the owner of status anyway. In summary, I did the following: chown -R uname:group /service/svcname/supervise \ /service/svcname/log/supervise The user "uname" can now control the service svcname. 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? > 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? Thanks v. much. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?